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Alabama Sweet. 



Alabama Sweet. The best Melon 

 grown for shipping. Oblong, very large, 

 dark green, feintly striped, very sweet, 

 entirely stringless; very prolific; we can- 

 not recommend this Melon too highly 

 Fancy selected Southern grown seed. 



Early Dark Icing. A very desirable 

 variety. Dark skin, crimson flesh, thin 

 rind, quite solid and of delicious flavor. 

 A fine market sort. 



Ice Cream (White Seeded). This va- 

 riety is annually increasing in popularity; 

 it grows to a medium size; nearly oval, 

 of a pale green color, and has a thinner 

 rind than any ether variety; flesh is 

 bright crimson, crisp and of delicious 

 flavor. 



Black Diamond. All that could be said 

 of Kolb's Gem as to good shipping quali- 

 ties can be truthfully stated in a higher 

 degree cf the Black Diamond. All the 

 praise of high quality bestowed on the 

 Sweetheart can be repeated of this 

 melon, but its prominent point of merit 

 is its extreme size — no melon ever yet 

 produced anything like so uniformly 

 large fruit, nor approached it in produc- 

 tiveness. Melons weighing from 75 to 

 90 lbs. are frequent. It is the most 

 prolific Water Melon ever planted. Its 

 color is a rich, dark green, almost black. 

 Its symmetrical shape, roundish to blunt- 

 ly oval, is uniform throughout the field. 

 The vine is extremely vigorous. 



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