12 P. MANN & CO., WASHINGTON, D.C. 
CANTALOUPE or MUSK MELON 
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 well up, thin to 4 to the hill; keep them well cultivated until the runners 
are so long they cannot be hoed or cultivated. The quality of Musk Melons is affected very much by 
weather conditions. : 
Early Knight. 
EARLY KNIGHT 
A splendid early Cantaloupe 
of superb quality, and at 
the same time makes an 
excellent market or ship- 
ping melon. 
- This new cantaloupe gave 
the very best results and 
satisfaction to our customers 
the past season. Its earli- 
ness, productiveness, uni- 
formity in shape and ap- 
pearance and fine table 
qualities easily place it in 
the first class both for home 
use and market. It matures 
about a week earlier 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. SALMON - FLESHED MUSK MELONS 
Pkt., 5c. Ounce, I5c. % pound, 40c. Pound, $1.50 FORDHOOK MUSK MELON.—Very thick, 
_ SWEET AIR.—It is the sweetest, finest flavored, | orange-yellow flesh, small seed cavity, and compara- 
Juiciest and best melon ever offered. It is a little | tively few seeds. The flesh is solid and of very fine 
larger than the Rocky Ford, well netted, thick green | flavor, staying solid and firm after the melon has 
flesh, small seed cavity. Packet, 5c. Ounce, 15c. | become quite yellow. The vines are healthy and 
% pound, 40c. Pound, $1.50. strong growers, setting fruit close to hill, and keep 
on setting fruit to end of vine throughout the sea- 
son. They are well ribbed and heavily netted. 
Equally good for home garden or market. Packet, 
5c. Ounce, 15ce. %4 pound, 35e. Pound, $1.25. 
ROCKY FORD NETTED GEM.—Our stock is 
specially grown for us in the famous Rocky Ford 
melon district, and is a particularly valuable strain 
for shippers. It is uniform in size, thickly netted, 
distinctly ribbed, firm-fleshed and of most delicious 
flavor. Packet, 5c. Ounce, 15ce. ™% pound, 35c. 
Pound, $1.00. ; 
EMERALD GEM.—Medium size, nearly round; 
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, 5c. Ounce, 15c. 
1% pound, 35c. Pound, $1.00. 
HONEY DEW.—tThe delicious honeylike flavor 
of this new melon has met with instantaneous pub- 
Salmon-Tint Pollock No. 10-25. lic 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 
POLLOCK’S No. 10-25 (Salmon Flesh).—This | cream colored. The flesh is from one and one-half 
Musk Melon is considered the best of the salmon | to two inches thick, light green in color, very sweet 
fleshed Rocky Fords. Is the most reliable and best | and juicy. Packet, 5c. Ounce, 15c. ™%4 pound, 35c.. 
cropper, thriving on most any soil, producing ripe | Pound, $1.50. 
melons in about 70 days, The fruits are of great TIP TOP —For splendid eating qualities this 
uniformity in size and shape, with well developed | melon is certainly rightly named, for it is*one of 
gray netting, closely laced and covering the entire | the most delicious flavored and finest table melons 
surface. The rich salmon flesh is very deep, solid, | in existence. It grows to a large size, has thick 
of a luscious, sweet flavor and ripens clear to the | orange flesh and is sweet, juicy and of the finest 
rind. Packet, 5c. Ounce, 15c. %4 pound, 40c. flavor even close to the rind. Packet, 5c. Ounce, 
Pound, $1.50. \15c.. % pound, 35c. Pound, $1.25. 
Ag ihe LVRS 
