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No one is better aware than I that during the last few years any number of 
new Muskmelons have been offered the American public; consequently I have 
been unusually careful in growing and examining into the merits of this new 
variety before offering it to my customers. I now do 80, however, with 
the full comfidence that Maule’s Superior Muskmelon will prove 
the most profitable market variety in cultivation, for the Superior 
unquestionably leads ali other Muskmelons in quality, product- 
H iveness and quick market sales. Ripening about the same time as the 
vie Jenny Lind, they are wonderfully strong and vigorous growers, producing £ 
frequently 5,6 and7 melons to the vine that in quality will equal, if not surpass, $ 
gm every known variety, and that for transportation purposes cannot be excelled, Q 
They have never been known to crack or rot at the blossom end, and they are so * 
attractive in appearance that they will always command from 10 to 25 cents per 5 
basket more than any other variety. I do not think a better name could have & 
been chosen than Superior for this excellent Muskmelon, and my customers can € 
rest assured that if they want the most profitable variety for market * 
they should select this one, andif they desire the most desirable Musk-= 
melon for the home garden they cannot do better than plant Superior the £ 
= coming season. Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, 20 cts.;14 pound, 40 ets.; pound, $1.25. § 
NETTED GHM.—A small melon, weighing MAULE’S PRIZE JENNY LIND.— A 
from 144 to 114 pounds each. They are thick- | It is astonishing that this, the most delicious 
meated, the fiesh is light green in color, and| small melon, is <o little xnown outside of the 
uniformly of fine, luscious flavor; skin green, | State of New Jersey. There it is more largely 
regularly ribbed and thickly netted. They are grown than any other variety, and thousands f 
almost as solid as a —,- SMeue 2 wy, Upon thousands of Hs 
eannon ball, jand will = — Z baskets are annually 
keep well five to seven J, shipped to New York 
days after picking. They 4and Philadelphia 
area very heavy cropper, = A markets, where they 
ns E and are extra early in SS, always meet with 
Netted Gem. Pkt.,5c. ripening. Ioffer seed Ygf, veady sale. My strain 
: grown from stock ob- of this popular variety Maule’s Prize Jenny Lind. 
tained direct from introducer, and can recommend it has been carefully _ Cicer oath Seam 
to all. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; 14 pound, =- selected for years. Itis the earliest of all the green- 
s : Sap 30 cents; pound, = fleshed sorts. Pkt., 
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BALTIMORE. Packet, 5 cents. MAULE’S BAY VIEW. Packet, 5 cents. 
STARW’S FAVORITE.—This variety, whieh I introduced in 1887, wasalso | in cultivation. They are shy seeders; the cavity for seed in many of them is so F 
catalogued the same year under the name of “Champion Market.’”’ It origi- | small that if they were all seed inside the flesh they could not contain many. ¢ 
nated with one of my customers, Mr. E. N, Starn, of New Jersey, about 17 years They are very attractive in appearance and a good shipper. Mr Starn has never 4 
ago. Mr. Starn has grown it to the exclusion of all other varieties ever since, | had a grower to see or taste them but wanted some of the seed. In addition to @ 
annually planting from 10 to 20 acres, the products of which have always sold | their attractive appearance and most excellent shipping qualities, they are also 2. 
at good prices the entire season, and many times at two to three times the | an enormous cropper and will be pronounced by all who plant them’as most a 
price of other sorts. They are nearly round, just a little oblong, thickly | certainly a favorite and most profitable market variety. Pkt.. 5cts.; ¢ 
netted, with thick, green flesh. Rich and spicy and one of the very best flavored ounce, 10 cents ; 14 pound, 30 cents ; 1 pound, $1.0v. 
EARLY IMPROVED CHRISTIANA.— This is a most popular early BALTIMORE.— Quite 
in New York State, being 10 days earlier than than the Nutmeg. Many market | early and very largeandshowy. & 
growers, having once planted it, always continue to do So, pronouncing it just the | A fine netted, green fleshed Si 
sort for early market on account of its extreme earliness. Try it. Pkt., 5 cents; ! variety, for either market or 
ounce, 10 cents; 14 pound, 25 cents; pound 70 cents. private gardeners. Pkt., 5c.; ss 
‘CASABA.Tt has thick green flesh, of delicate and delicious flavor. | 0z., 10c.; 14 Ib., 25c.; lb., 70e. 
Weight from 10 to 12 lbs. Pkt., 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; 14 lb., 25 cts.; lb., 70 ets. MAULE’S BAY VIEW. 
HACKENSACK.—Large size, well known in N. Y. market. Round shape, | —Under ordinary cultivation 
flattened ends;deeply netted, MONTREAL.—Often weigh-| will reach 12 to 15 Ibs. VERY: 
very productive, excel- ing from 20 to 25 lbs. In 1883, | productive, and most excel- 
lent quality. Liked three melons were raised, | lent in many other ways; they 
by market gar- weighing respectively 394, | are firm when ripe; excellent 
deners. Pkt. 3844, and _ 3814 lbs. each, | for shipping. Packet, 5 cents; 


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5¢.; 02.100, In addition to their| ounce, 10 cents; Y% pound, 25 
A eee large size, the flesh is | cents; pound, 70 cents. 
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delicious melting fla-| green, finely netted; flesh of ee 
vor, regular sheDe pen and Gelicious flavor. Pkt., Me ——————— 
nearly round flat- | 5 cts.; ounce, 10 cts.; 1 und . iz an 
/ toned ends, skin | 25 cents; pound, 70 Le i NUTMEG. Packet, 5 cents. H 
‘gq green, densely HARDY RIDGE.—This is a great favorite in France. Flesh is wonder- =H 
netted, and very | fully thick, 4 to5in. through; juicy and sugary, with few seeds. Pkt., 10c.; 0z., 30c. 8 
wi productive. At BANANA.—At first Banana Melon was cultivated more as a curiosity than 
“considerable ex- | anything else, but the last few seasons have seen them bring such high prices, w 
pense, I pro-| 50 cents to $1.00 a piece in Philadelphia, New York and Boston markets, that & 
cured a few lbs. | they prove a most profitable market crop. They must not be confounded © 
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of Montreal di-| with the old Log of Wood, as they are entire y distinct and resemble no other Gs 
rect from orig-| melon. They attaina length of from ciel teen inches to two feet six inches, and eh 
inal source in| are from two to four inches thick. Fles , very thick, of a salmon color; in flayor A 
Canada. Pkt.10c. | remarkably delicious, and equal to almost any melon you have ever eaten, It “| 
0z., 15 ¢.; 44 lb., | looks almost like an overgrown banana, and, moreover, smells like one. 8: 
30c¢.; 1b., $1.00. It is not only a curiosity, but in flavor is unquestionably fine. Packet,10cents; & 
= ounce, 20 cents; 4% pound, 50 cents; 
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