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Johnson's Dixie Watermelon. 



Tiie 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. 

 Johnson's Dixie is the only watermelon now in demand at good prices and at a hand- 

 some 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 remarkably 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 three 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 greatly to the productive- 

 ness and life of the vines. The meat is more scarlet, finer and of much better quality. These strong 

 claims have been more than verified in past seasons by ourselves and hundreds of other growers. 



Johnson's Dixie Produces the Largest 100 I It a « •^'^ competition for the $100.00 cash 



Mainn Cunr Pi-nuin in Amnrinn I S S lllx Pfizcs offered by US for the largest Johnson's 



IVieiOn tVer UrOWn in HmSriCa. lUU lUOl Dixlegrown in 1892, over four hundred customers 



reported weights of fifty pounds and over. The largest and heaviest melon grown, and for which 

 our first prize was awarded, weighed 133 poiitids, and measured 37 inches in length, with a diam- 

 eter of 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 1890, 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 very 

 choicest specimens in a field of thirty acres. The great popularity of John- 

 son's Dixie is due entirely to the great care and attention given to our selected 

 strain, which is the best that care and money could produce. Buy direct 

 from the introducers and you will be sure to get the genuine. 



Prices: Pkt , 5c.; oz., loc; % lb., 25c.; lb., 85c., post-paid; 5 lbs. and 

 over, 65c. per lb , by express. 



Extra Selected Stock Seed, saved from picked melons, the largest 

 and finest in our patch. Pkt., loc. ; oz., 20c.; % lb., 50c.; lb., $1.50. 



Aaron P.'VUi,, the well-known New Jersey melon grower says : " After a 

 three 3'ears' trial I find Johhson's Dixie the best, hardiest and most productive 

 melon I have ever grown. My fields of this variety were a sight to behold, 

 averaging seven to eight fine, large melons to the vine, while its eating qual- 

 ity is unequalled by any other variety ever grown or known to me. Its 

 fine appearance and shipping qualities are so much superior to Kolb Gem as 

 to place it beyond comparison. Its extreme hardiness to both cold and 

 wet weather is simply wonderful, and I doubt if its equal exists. ' ' the vetkrI'n melon'grower. 



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