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JOHNSOX & STOKES, PHILADELPHIA 



JOHNSON'S DIXIE W/HERHELON. 



The Great New Watermelon, Surpassing the Famous Kolb Gem as a Shipper, and Without a Peer in 



Fine Quality and Productiveness. 



NOTHING we have ever introduced has met with such large sale, and brought us so many strong 

 recommendations from growers in all sections of the country as this wonderful melon. John- 

 son's Dixie is the only watermelon now in demand at good prices and at a handsome profit 

 to growers on New York, Philadelphia and Boston markets in the selling season. It is a cross 

 between the Kolb Gem and Old-Fashioned Mountain Sweet, made by one of the largest 

 truck and melon growers of North Carolina. It surpasses the Kolb Gem in shipping qualities, 

 and fully equals the Mountain Sweet in fine eating quality and flavor, and is a week to ten days 

 earlier than either. It has a remarkabh' thin rind, almost impenetrable, which preserves it for a great 

 length of time, keeping three times as long as either of the two varieties named, before showing decay. 

 Its great productiveness is shown from the fact that the past four seasons it matured from six to 

 eight large melons to the vine, while Kolb Gem rarely produced more than two or three. The vines 

 grow strong and rapidly, with more laterals than any other melon, and have the singular and very 

 valuable quality of rooting from every joint, 

 adding greath- to the productiveness and life of 

 the vines. The meat is more scarlet, finer and of 

 much better quality. 



In competition for the $100.00 Cash Prizes 

 offered by us for the largest Johnson's Dixie grown in 

 ]8g2, over four hundred customers reported weights 

 of fift}^ pounds and over. The largest and heaviest 

 melon grown, and for which our first prize was 

 awarded, weighed 133 pounds, and measured 37 

 inches in length, with a diameter cf 18 inches. 

 This wonderful melon was grown by Samuel Barnes, 

 Esq., of Wills Point, Texas. 



When we first introduced this new- melon to the 

 public in the spring of 1 890, we paid what we believe 

 to be the highest price per pound ever given for a 

 crop of melon seed. The stock seed from which our 

 present supply was grown was taken from the ver}- 

 choicest specimens in a field of thirt}- acres. The 

 great popularity of Johnson's Dixie is due entirely 

 to the great care and attention given toe a selected 

 strain, which is the best that care and money could 

 produce. It has come to our knowledge that a vasth- 

 inferior melon is being offered and sold as Dixie. 

 Look out for it. Buy direct from the introducers 

 and you will be sure to get the genuine. 



Prices : Pkt. , 5c. ; oz. , loc. ; J4^ lb. , 20c. ; lb. , 75c. , 

 post-paid; 5 lbs. and over, 6oc. per lb., by express. 



Extra Selected Stock Seed, saved from 

 picked melons, the largest and finest in our patch. 

 Pkt, loc. ; oz., 20c., % lb., 40c.; lb., Ir.25. 



A HAPPY THIEF. 



