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MANN & CO 



WASHINGTON, D 



CANTALOUPE or MUSK MELLON 



One ounce will plant about fifty hills. Two or three pounds in hill per acre. 



CULTURE. — Plant seed in hills 5 and 6 feet apart each way, 8 to 10 seeds per hill, after danger from frost is 

 past. After plants are weU up, thin to 4 to the hill; keep them well cultivated until the runners are so long they 

 cannot be hoed or cultivated. The quahty of Musk Melons is affected very much by weather conditions. 



EARLY KNIGHT 



A splendid early Cantaloupe of superb 

 quality, and at the same time makes an 

 excellent market or shipping melon. 



This new cantaloupe gave the very 

 best results and satisfaction to our cus- 

 tomers the past season. Its earliness, pro- 

 ductiveness, uniformity in shape and 

 appearance and fine table qualities easily 

 place it in the first class both for home 

 use and market. It matures about a week 

 earUer than the regular Rocky Ford, is 

 larger in size, and makes a most attractive 

 and salable melon. It has thick, green 

 flesh, shading to orange at the center. 

 The fruits are oblong in shape, well ripened 

 and well netted. Packet, 10c. Ounce, 15c. 

 ]/i pound, 40c. Pound, SI. 50. 



SWEET AIR.— It is the sweetest, finest 

 flavored, juiciest and best melon ever 

 offered. It is a little larger than the Rocky 

 Ford, well netted, thick green flesh, small 

 seed cavitv. Packet, 10c. Ounce, 20c. 34 

 Pound, 50c. Pound, $1.50. 



ROCKY FORD NETTED GEM.— 



Our stock is specially grown for us in the ~ lk^ 



famous Rocky Ford melon district, and is 



a particularly valuable strain for shippers. 



It is uniform in size, thickly netted, dis- 



inctly ribbed, firm-fleshed and of most dehcious flavor. Packet, 10c. Ounce, 20c. J4 pound, 40c. Pound, SI. 00. 



HONEY DEW. — The delicious honeylike flavor of this new melon has met with instantaneous public favor 



and created a sensation wherever used. The fruit is of large size, weighing eight to ten pounds each. The rind is 

 perfectly smooth and cream colored. The flesh is from one and one-half to two inches thick, light green in color, 

 very sweet and juicy. Packet, 10c. Ounce, 20c. % pound, 50c. Pound, SI. 50. 



TIP TOP. — For splendid eating qualities this melon is certainly rightly named, for it is one of the most deli- 

 cious flavored and finest table melons in existence. It grows to a large size, has thick orange flesh and is sweet, juicj' 

 and of the finest flavor even close to the rind. Packet, 10c. Ounce, 20c. M pound, 40c. Pound, SI. 25. 



POLLOCK'S No. 10-25 (Salmon Flesh).— This Musk 

 Melon is considered the best of the salmon fleshed Rocky 

 Fords. Is the most reliable and best cropper, thriving on most 

 anj' soil, producing ripe melons in about 70 days. The fruits 

 are of great uniformity in size and shape, with well developed 

 gray netting, closely laced and covering the entire surface. 

 The rich salmon flesh is very deep, solid, of a luscious, sweet 

 flavor and ripens clear to the rind. Packet, 10c. Oimce, 20c. 

 ]4, pound, 50c. Pound, SI. 50. 



FORDHOOK MUSK MELON.— \ery thick, orange- 

 yellow flesh, small seed ca\-ity, and comi)aratively few .seeds. 

 The flesh is solid and of very fine flavor, staying solid and firm 

 after the melon has become quite j'ellow. The vines are 

 healthy and strong growers, setting fruit close to hill, and 

 keep on setting fruit to end of vine throughout the season. 

 They are well ril)bcd and heaA-ily netted. Equally good for 

 home garden or market. Packet. 10c. Ounce, 20c. 34 pound, 

 40c. Pound, SI. 25. 



EMER.\LD GEM. — Medium size, nearly roimd; flesh 

 a delicate light salmon color, very thick, fine-grained and of 

 most excellent flavor. The rind is thin, dark green, ribbed, 

 but not netted. One of the best for home use. Packet, lOe. 

 Ounce, 20c. H pound, 40c. Pound, Sl.OO. 



Rockv Ford 



.Salmon-Tint Pollock No. 10-25 



