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THE MAULE SEED BOOK FOR 1906 
MUSKMELONS OR CANTALOUPES. 
CuLTURE.—Plant seed in hills 4 to 6 feet apart each way, after danger 
Insert seeds 
of frost is over. Use well rotted manure in the hills. 
tess under surface of soil: ] ounce to 50 hills; 2to3 pounds to acre. A 
light, warm soil is best, but there are varieties of melons well adapted 
to loamy and even heavy ground, if well drained. In hoeing draw the 
soil well up to the plants. Fight bugs with tobacco dust, bone meal 
Maule’s Netted Gem 
or Rocky Ford Hiuskmelon. 
In Favor for a Quarter of a Century as a Paying Sort 
for Home and Market. 
This delicious melon is nothing more nor less 
than a form of my old standard Netted Gem. It is 
a small, early melon, weighing 114 to 144 pounds, 
The flesh is deep and thick, and light green in color, 
except next the seeds, where it inclines towards 
yellow. The flavor is exceedingly fine. The skin is 
green, regularly ribbed and thickly netted. It isa | 
firm, solid melon, and will carry in perfect condi- 
tion for a week or more after its removal from the 
vine. It isa heavy cropper, and is in wide favor as 
amarket melon. Indeed, its ability to bear trans- 
portation without breaking down has made it one 
ot the most profitable of crops, and explains why 
it isso universally grown. It has many local names. 
In New Jersey it is known as Netted Gem, Golden 
Jenny and Golden Gem. In Colorado it has the 
name of Rocky Ford from a locality where it 
grows in great abundance and perfection, and from 
whence it is shipped all over the country, even to 
Philadelphia and other large Eastern cities. I 
notice that the same melon is also called Rocky 
Ford Nutmeg, Alamo Nutmeg and Dewey Gem 
Nutmeg; and it no doubt has other names of local 
choice. I have the original strain of this celebrated 
melon, the seed being grown with the utmost care 
FERRY’S NEW DEFENDER MUSKMELON, 
One of the best of the yellow-fleshed sorts. Of medium size, Some- 
what elongated, well netted and of pleasing appearance. The flesh is 
edible almost to the rind. The inside color is a little darker than Osage, 
and is richer in flavor. The flesh is fine-grained and firm, and the melon 
bears transportation well. Pkt., 5c.; 0z., l0c.. 14 1b., 25¢.; Ib., 75e. 
NORFOLK BUTTON MUSKMELON, 
An extra early type of the Jenny Lind, of the same size as the parent 
but earlier to reach maturity. and hence morevaluable. It has the green 
flesh and characteristic sweetness and spiciness of the parent. The 
market gardeners and farmers at Norfolk, Virginia, have for some 
vears made money with this splendid strain of Jenny Lind, and it 
became so well known and so famous as to require a distinctive title. 
Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; 14 pound, 25 cents; pound, 75 cents. 
as to purity. ; 
Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; 
ly pound, 25 cts.; pound, 75 cts. 
The True Rocky Ford 
or Netted Gem Wuskmelon. 
The Best and Purest Strain of Seed. 
Grown at Rocky Ferd, Gelorado, The Most Fashionab’e 
Cantaloupe on the American Market. 
Above will be found a full description of this celebrated 
melon, but the seed offered there is Eastern grown. [I find, 
however, that many of my customers prefer seed actually 
grown at Rocky Ford, Col.; so for a number of years past 
IT have had grown there, by the most careful raiser of Rocky 
Ford melons, a considerable amount of seed, which has 
proven most satisfactory to my customers, as it is selected 
only from the best and finest melons, and not as in most 
cases after all the best have been marketed, which unfortu- | - 
nately is a very common practice with some growers. Many |, 
dealers demand an extra price for Rocky Ford melon seed 
raised in Colorado, and it does cost a little more to grow it \ 
there than here in the East. But the increased price amounts | 
to only a trifle, consequently there should be very little or no 
difference between the price of the Eastern grown seed and 
that grown in Rocky Ford. 
Rocky Ford Grown: Packet, 5 cts.; ounce, 10 cts.; 
quarter pound, 25 cts.; pound, 75 cts. 
PETOSKEY OR 
PAUL ROSE. 
This extra fine 
salmon fleshed 
melon isahybrid 
between Osage 
and Netted Gem, 
larger than 
Osage Gem, With 
deeper flesh. It 
is the thickest § 
fleshed yellow or& 
salmon colored 
muskmelon 
within my know- ¥ 
ledge. It is small 
in size, slightly 
elongated in 
shape, and of de- 
lightful flavor. 
Notwithstanding 
its thin rind, 
Petoskey is a 
good shipper and 
fine melon for 
market purposes. 
See 
Pkt., 5 cts.’ 
