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•. JOHNSON .-.&.•. STOKES /. PHILADELPHIA .-. 



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JOHNSON'S QHRISTn/IS W/ITERriELON. 



Our ex.tensi\'e experience in the growth of all varieties of ^'atermelons for seed in past years, together with the assur- 

 ance of liundreds of melon growers who liave tested it, enables us to assert that Johnson's Clirislmas Melon will, when fully 

 introduced, supersede nearly all other melons for shipping and keeping purjxjses. Since the original melon was discovered, 

 in 1SS3, we have each year enjoyed one of these melons for both a Christmas and New Year's dinner, when, after being kept 

 in our cellar for a period of three months, they out open a< fresh and delicious as the day they were picked. Their valuable 

 keeping and shipping qualities are due to a peculiar, hard tenacious coating or outside enameling of the skin, which also 

 gives them an exeeeilingly handsome and fresh appearance, even after l>eing kept or allowed to remain on the vines for 

 months after ripening. Xotwithstanding'the rind is quite thin, we have dropped th< m from a height of four feet without 

 breaking or bruising. The fle^h is of a beautiful rich scarlet, t-er}/ solid and of deHcinus^ sngarjj flavor. Its uniform size and 

 handsome, fresh appearance, at all times, make it a most salable variety. Pkt., 10c. ; oz., 20c.; J^ lb., 40c ; lb., 81.25 ; 5 lbs., S5.00. 



QlR/lRDE/qU'J FLORID/1 F/qVORlTE W/lTERflELON. 



This new variety 

 is a hybrid of the 

 Rattlesnake and 

 Pierson, the latter be- 

 ing a celebrated 

 home variety in 

 Florida. It is pro- 

 nounced, by all who 

 have grown it, the 

 finest table melon ex- 

 tant : oblong in 

 shape, as shown in 

 the illustration; 

 growing to verylarge 

 size ; rind dark Avith 

 light-green stripes; 

 flesh light crimson, 

 very crisp and deli- 

 ciously sweet. It ri- 

 pens about ten days 

 earlier than Koib 

 Oem, Iron-Clad or 

 Rattlesnake. We of- 

 fer seed grown by the 

 originator. Pkt., .5c.; 

 oz., 10c. ; M lb., 25c.; 

 lb., 80c.; 5 lbs., 83.25. 



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