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age 61.—Annual Catalogue for 1905 of Maule’s Four-Leaf Clover GUARANTEED SEEDS. Address all orders to WM, HENRY MAULF. No. 1711 Filbert Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
MUSKMELONS OR CANTALOUPES. 
CuULTURE.—Plant seed in hills 4 to 6 feet apart each way, after danger 
of frost is over. Use well rotted manure in the hills. Insert seeds 

just under surface of soil: ] ounce to 50 hills; 2to 3 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 mea) 




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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.; oz., lUc.. 14 1b., 25¢.; 1b., 75c. 
























































































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OSAGE GEM MUSKMELON. 
Not to be confounded with Osage. 
between Osage and Netted Gem. 

fiesh. Crop a failure, can offer by packet only. Packet, 10 cents. 




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Maule’s Nelted Gem 
or Rocky Ford Muskmelon. 
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 1% 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 condl- 
tion for a week or more after its removal from the 
vine. It isa h-avy cropper, and is in wide fayor as 
amarket melon. Indeed, its ability to bear trans- 
portation without breaking down has made it one 
of 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 -EHastern 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 
as to purity. 
Packet, 5 cts.; ounce, 10 cts,; 14 1b., 25 cts.; lb., 70 cts, 
THE COLORADO GROWN ROCKY BORD. 
—(See page 10.) 

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PETOSKEY OR 
PAUL ROSE. 
This extra fine 
salmon fleshed 
melonisahybrid 
between Osage 
and Netted Gem, 
larger than 
Osage Gem, with 
deeper flesh. It 
isthe 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. 
BECK’S STRAWBERRY MUSKMELON, 
This fine melon has deep flesh of a green color, inclining to yellow. 
The flavor is exquisite. It is early. It has somewhat the external ap- 
pearance of the old Nutmeg. Pkt, 5c.; 0z., lle ; 14 1b., 25¢.; lb., 70c. 

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Pkt., 5 cts.; 0z., 10 cts.; 14 1b., 25 cts.; 1b., 75 cts. 

Osage Gem is the result of a cross 
It is precisely similar to Maule’s | years made money with this splendid strain of Jenny Lind, and it 
Netted Gem in outward appearance; a Rocky Ford melon with salmon | became so well known and so famous as to require a distinctive title. 



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 more valuable. It has the green 
flesh and characteristic sweetness and spiciness of the parent. The 
market gardeners and farmers at Norfolk, Virginia, have for some 
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| Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; 14 pound, 25 cents; pound, 75 cents. 
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