48—Vegetable Seeds THE MAULE SEED BOOK FOR 1911 
just undersurface of soil: 1 ounce to 60 hills; 2 to 3 pounds to acre. Thin 
MUSKM ELONS OR GANTALOU PES. out, leaving only 4 plants toa hill. A light, warm soil is best, but there 
are varieties adapted to heavy loams, if well drained. In hoeing draw 
CULTURE.—Plant seed in hills 4 to 6 feet apart each way, after danger | the soil well up to the plants. Fight bugs with tobacco dust, Slug 
of frost is over. Use well rotted manure in the hills. Insert seeds | Shot, air slaked lime, land plaster, Bug Death or Buhach. 
«7 Maule’s Select 
Rocky Ford Muskmelon 
(Green fiesh.) In this Rocky Ford Melon I offer 
my customers a strain of seed grown for me by one of 
the very best, if not the best, growers of melons in 
Rocky Ford, Colo. The seed is saved from a field in 
which not a single melon has been sold, in other words 
only the best and choicest melons have been retained 
for seed. These melons if shipped to the Eastern mar- 
kets would have brought the highest prices, conse- 
quently the seed I offer costs me an unusually high 
price. This strain of Rocky Ford is equal to any 
small green fieshed melon now on the market, and be- 
tween ourselves while this is the best green fleshed, 
Bowman’s Gold Coin offered below is the best Salmon 
fieshed variety of this character. 
I have less than 1,000 pounds of this special strain of 
Maule’s Select Rocky Ford on hand, but as long as 
it lasts will be glad to furnish it to my customers at 
the following reasonable prices : 
Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; 
MAULE’S SELECT ROCKY FORD MUSKMELON. 4 pound, 30 cents; pound, $1.00. 
ss Maule’s Honey 
Muskmelon 
(Green flesh.) I call it Honey from the fact that 
56 of my customers suggested this name, in com- 
petition for.a $100 prize, and it was very gratifying 
to me to know that so many felt compelled on ac- 
count of its sweet, delicious flavor to call this new 
melon Honey. Maule’s Honey muskmelon is of 
medium size, weighing 3 to 4 pounds on an average. 
It is distinctly and evenly ribbed and moderately } 
netted. Globe shape and somewhat flattened at the 
stem and blossom end. Its exterior color is a 
peculiar shade of green, quite unlike any other 
muskmelon. The flesh is green, inclining to yel- 
low. Thespicy flavor is as distinct and character- 
istic as itis sweet and pleasing. The flesh is both 
deep and firm, the edible portion almost touching 
the rind, and remarkably juicy. 
Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 15 cents; = ape ES ox a ee 
4 pound, 40 cents; pound, $1.50. MAULE’S HONEY MUSKMELON. 
« Bowman’s New Gold Coin Muskmelon 
(Salmon fiesh.) Gold Coin. first offered in 1906; 
was first called to my attention by Mr. T. Greiner, 
the Garden Editor of The Practical Farmer, a weekly 
agricultural journal, that I really think has done 
more for the benefit of American horticulture and 
agriculture than any other publication in this 
country. Mr. Bowman, first discovered this melon 
nine years ago, ina patch of Emerald Gem, on his 
grounds in Niagara County, New York. It is sup- 
posed to be across between that variety and Anne 
Arundel or Acme. Careful selection of seed has 
brought it to its present perfection. The following 
is Mr. Bowman’s description of it: ‘My melon is 
= earlier than the Paul Rose by 10 days.. It is two or 
three times as large, and a great deal more netted, 
of lighter skin, wider ribbed, of deeper flesh and 
| better quality. It also yields twice as many bushels 
to the acre. The specimens run from round to ob- 
long, often both on the same vine, Some of the speci- 
mens weighing 6 to 7 pounds. Paul Rose, Miller’s 
Cream, or any other melon I ever saw, is not to be 
compared with it in quality or general value.” 
In Gold Coin I consider I have found what we have 
all along been looking for, a melon equal to the 
Emerald Gem in quality, and a better shipper. 
Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 20 cents; 14 pound, 
BOWMAN’S NEW GOLD COIN MUSKMELON. 50 cents; pound, $1.75. 
