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FROTSCHEER’S NEW 
ORLEANS MARBREET. — A 
large species of the citron 
kind, extensively grown for 
this market. It is very 
roughly netted and of lus- 
cious flavor; different alto- 
gether from the Northern 
Netted Citron, which is 
earlier but not so fine in 
flavor, and not half the size 
of the variety grown here. 
The New Orleans Market 
cannot be excelled by any 
other variety in the world. 
In a favorable season it is 
a perfect gem. It has been 
tried alongside of varieties 
praised in the North, such 
as are brought out every 
year, but none of them 
could compare with the 
New Orleans Market. af: 
the best and earliest speci- 
mens are selected for seed, 
in three or four years the 
fruit will be large and fine. 
LONG ISLAND BEAUTY. 
This is one of the best 
shipping varieties, is very 
early, of good size, green 
flesh, roughly netted, and of 
luscious flavor. Besides 
being the most beautiful it 
is also earliest of all. 
TEXAS CANNON BALL.—tThis melon is 
as round as a ball, of medium size, 6 to 8 
inches in diameter and heavily netted. 
Flesh light green, melting and highly 
flavored. Remarkably solid with extreme- 
ly small seed cavity. Very prolific, con- 
tinuing bearing for a long time. 
Rockyford. 
ROCKYFORD.—Undoubtedly the best ex- 
tra early, small, round, green fleshed 
melon in cultivation, nearly perfect globe 
in shape. Remarkably uniform in _ size, 
weighing from 1% to 1% pounds. Very 
thick netted with thin rind. Skin green 
and heavily ribbed; flesh, light green in 
color, melting and uniform, of.a very lus- 
ciovs flavor. Very prolific and early .in 
ripening. 
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Frotscher’s New Orleans Market. 
TIP TOP.—This spiendid melon has 
‘held its own” during the past dozen 
years or more with all introductions in the 
melon line, and no melon of which we have 
any knowledge compares with it in uni- 
formly good eating qualities. The testi- 
mony of all who have used Tip Top is that 
every melon produced, whether big or lit- 
tle, early or late, is a good one; sweet, 
juicy, finest flavor, firm (but not hard) 
fleshed, and eatable to the outside coating. 
Its appearance on the market is very at- 
tractive—sells on sight. 
EMERALD GEM.—A medium size melon 
which originated in Michigan, is almost 
round, of good quality, the skin is green 
and smooth; flesh salmon, fine grained and 
thick. A good variety. 
NETTED CITRON.—This variety is cul- 
tivated to a greater extent for market than 
any other sort, and for this purpose it has 
no superior. When grown from seed that 
has been well selected, it is of very fine 
flavor; fruit round, flattened at both ends, 
roughly netted, and of a pale yellowish 
green when ripe. 
NETTED NUTMEG.—Is of an oval 
shape, roughly netted, but not attaining so 
large a size as the Netted Citron; it is 
equally as fine in flavor. 
PAUL ROSE OR PETOSEEY.— This 
splendid melon is one of the very best 
varieties for either home use or the market 
that has been introduced for many years. 
It has a firmness of rind and structure of 
flesh peculiarly its own, superior in this 
respect to any other melon in existence, 
surpassing all other varieties as a shipper 
and a long keeper; has a very small seed 
cavity, deep orange-colored flesh, and is of 
very uniform shape, average diameter of 
about 5 inches. 
The Oldest, the Newest, the Best Seed House in the South. 
