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New Extra Early Grand Rapids Miiskmelon. 



One week earlier than any Other Variety. 



The main characteristic of this melon is its extreme earliness. 

 Grand Rapids is well known on account of its progressive mar- 

 ket gardeners, and in that wide awake city the New Grand 

 Rapids Melon has been on the market two weeks earlier than any 

 other sort, and sold readily at Si 50 per dozen to hotels and fancy gro- 

 cers, while melons grown in the South were practically unsalable. 

 There is no question that it is bound to supersede the Extra Early 

 Hackensack, as it is at least two weeks earlier. Shape is well shown in 

 illustration, which is taken from a photograph. Flesh is pure yellow, 

 clear to the rind; skin finely netted; the handsome appearance of this 

 melon is sure to attract attention. To attain best results, and to show 

 its remarkable earliness and proliticness, I would advise my custo- 

 mers to pinch off the runners ; while it has no tendency to run more 

 than other varieties, at the same time by throwing the growth into the 

 fruit, it makes the fruit of larger size and earlier. 



B^Grand Rapids is absolutely the EARLIEST 

 of all melons, large or small, while in shape and 

 general appearance it is one of the handsomest 

 melons ever offered the American melon grower. 



I am especially proud of the fact that I am able to give my customers 

 in one season three such sterling novelties as Extra Early Grand 

 Rapids Xnskmelou, Sew Davis Kidney Wai Bean, Sew Imperial 

 Tomato. Every one of them a sure winner. The illustration of Grand 

 Rapids was made direct from a photograph, and is a speaking adver- 

 tisement for this, absolutely the earliest Muskmelon in cultivation. 

 Packet, 'iO cents ; ounce, 50 cents ; > 4 ' pound, SI. -30 ; pound, S3. 00. 



Be up to Date and Ahead of Your Neighbors. 



One packet each of the New Early Grand Rapids M!uskmelon, 

 Davis Kidney Wax Beans and New Imperial Tomato, will be sent 

 postpaid to any address on receipt of iiO cents. Thus for the tri- 

 fling sum of 50 cents, yon will have a packet each of the three 

 best vegetables that will be offered in 1895, and I can safely guar- 

 antee that not a single purchaser will ever regret the Investment. 



NEW TRIUMPH MUSKMELON. 



This is another new Western variety, which I offer for the first 

 time this year, is a cross between the popular Osage and Columbus. It 

 retains all the unsurpassed keeping and shipping qualities of the Co- 

 lumbus; but is of a fine red or salmon color. Flesh deep like its parent ; 

 of superior flavor. Melons never crack open at the end, and grow 10 to 

 15 pounds in weight ; of very attractive appearance, which sells them at 

 sight. Packet, 15 cents ; 2 packets, 25 cents ; ounce, 50 cents. 



