WM. HENRY MAULE, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Vegetable Seeds — 53 



369 



Pollock's Solid 

 Rock Muskmelon 



Wonderful Shipper 



A green fleshed variety of the most 

 exquisite quality. The handsomest, best 

 netted and most profitable earJy melon 

 in existence for market gardeners and 

 shippers. The finest rust resisting melon 

 on thcumarket. 



(Green flesh.) It gives me much 

 pleasure to be able to ofTer to my cus- 

 tomers this grand early solid net strain 

 of Rocky Ford. It has the heaviest, 

 thicliest flesh and the smallest seed 

 cavity of all the Rocky Ford musk- 

 melons. The illustration is a repro- 

 duction of a i^hotograph. Its ovai 

 shape is the same as the Rocky Ford 

 with a solid white netting. Tlie aver- 

 age yield is over 250 crates per acre oJ 

 A No. 1 shipping melons, fully a tliird 

 more than other sorts. The extra thick 

 green flesh has a beautiful pinkish hue 

 of the most delicious quality, and is 

 one of the best rust resisting melons 

 ever produced. It is a wonderful pro- 

 ducer and a profitable market sort; a 

 remarkably fine shipper. My seed is 

 direct from headquarters, grown in 

 Rocky Ford, Colorado. 



Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 15 cents; 

 quarter pound, 40 cents; pound, .^1.25. 



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POLLOCK'S SOLID HLiCr. M U S r, :,1 ^ LC N. 



The most delicious of all large melons. 

 Weigh 8 to 10 pounds each, and attracts 

 attention anywhere. Flesh from 2 to 3 inches 

 in thickness, and in shape and general appear- 

 ance it resembles the large French melons 

 sold on the fruit stands at $1.00 to $2.00 each. 



(Salmon flesh.) I am very glad indeed to an- 

 nounce this year that I have a very fine crop ol 

 Maule's Perfection jMuskmelon. The shape is 

 well shown in the illustration herewith; color of 

 skin is a deep rich green, well ribbed and thickly 

 netted, while the flesh is a rich salmon. The 

 melon is nearly all flesh, the interior being very 

 small, hardly large enough to accommodate the 

 seed. In flavor it is simply unexcelled, and It 

 certainly justifies its name, given by nie in 1884, 

 by its past experience and real merit. I can 

 safely challenge any seedsman in America to 

 produce a finer melon in flavor or appearance. 

 It is so thick fleshed that one melon is enough 

 for three or four people under ordinary circum- 

 stances, and in a patch of an acre or more you can 

 find hundreds of melons that very closely resemble 

 the large French melons sold on fruit stands. If 

 it has a fault it is in the fact that it will not stand 

 shipping like Rocky Ford, but for the home gar- 

 den or near market trade it is unsurpassed. 



Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 15 cents; 

 quarter pound, 40 cents; pound, §1.50, postpaid. 



MAULE'S PERFECTION MUSKMELON. 



366 Tip Top Muskmelon 



(Orange flesh.) This is a fine, nearly round In 

 shape melon of such attractive appearance as to 

 always sell quickly in the markets. It is sweet, 

 juicy and delicious. The flesh is firm but not hard, 

 and is edible almost to the rind. The melon is of 

 medium to large size, evenly ribbed and moder- 

 ately netted; a strong grower, heavy yielder and of 

 handsome appearance. This melon has been 



grown for a number of years by market gardeners 

 near Rochester, N. Y., also Columbus, Ohio, and has 

 proved so superior in every way, that there is prac- 

 tically no other variety grown for this market. Its 

 appearance on the market stall is very attractive, 

 sells on sight; customers soon learn to pick them out 

 and will have no other variety. Packet, 5 cents; 

 ounce, 10 cts.; ^ poiind, 30 cts.; pound, 90 ct^. 



TIP TOP MUSKMELON 



