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VAUGHAN'S BOOK FOR FLORISTS, CHICAGO AND NEW YORK. 



This new head lettuce is an improved strain of 

 the famous "Big Boston." It possesses all the good 

 qualities of the Big Boston, such as earliness, good 

 size, attractive color, and it can, furthermore, be 

 sown nearly all summer; it keeps its head remark- 

 ably well during hot weather, remaining crisp and 

 soUd. Per oz., 10c. ; 3 ozs., 15c.; H lb., 25c.; 

 lb., SI .00. 



SEASONS' 



Without doubt this is one of the best of the All- 

 head Lettuces. It forms a handsome, very large 

 solid head, almost as large as a Flat Dutch Cabbage. 

 The leaves are a beautiful light green, and the inner 

 ones are very tender and crisp. It goes to seed very 

 slowly and is for early or late sowing. Oz., lOc; 

 2 ozs., 15c.; K lb., 25c.; lb., SI .00. 



A very popular_ variety with gardeners who want 

 a large heading, forcing sort, and also for outdoor 

 winter culture in the South. The plants are large, 

 very hardy and vigorous, with broad, smooth, thin 

 and very hard leaves, which are bnght, light green 

 in color, and when well j^rown are quite tender. 

 Indoors this forms a solid head, while outdoors it is 

 less distinctively a heading sort, l.b., SI .00; }i lb., 

 25c.; 2 ozs., 15c.; oz., 10c. 



Two Ounces to 100 Yards of 

 Row, Four Pounds to the Acre. 



MUSK MELONS 



Special Prices on 5, 10 arvd 20 

 Pourvd Lots. 



Vauf^han's Original Osage 



This famou-j .M- i, 'jur u'.vu niir<j,UK uun, and we take special pride in 

 liaintaimng the quahty and superiority ot our stock. We pay many times the 

 prices given ordinary seed growers to get our seed raised in the best locality and 

 then selected from merchantable early Melons. Seed obtained from culls left 

 in the field after marketing is over can be bought cheaply, but is high at any price. 

 However seed taken from early choice market melons must bring a high price, 

 though really a hundred times cheaper than the other. Salmon flesh, high table 

 quality; during the last season was the best Melon on the Chicago Market. Our 

 strain is dark skinned, but moderately netted. 



Vauiihan's Selected Stock— Lb., S3 .50 ; M lb.,75c.; 2 oz.,45c.;oz.,25c. 

 Ordinary Sc^cd - ICii-in field grown for seed, but seed not chosen from 

 special I 1 Lb., Sl.l.-,; '4 lb., 35c.; oz., 10c. ; 10 lbs., SIO.OO. 

 Special Shipping Osage SHghtly more netted than original__t>T>c 



esp( 



elected for shipping. Lb., $1.60; 



M lb., .; oz., I5t . 



Netted Gem — Rocky Ford. — Selected Stock J'jjs seed is care- 



fully grown se- 

 lected ami savcil at Rocky Ford under the care and supervision of one of the most 

 careful shippers. It is well known that much seed offered as Rocky Ford stock 

 has been saved by local growers from surplus or cull Melons by men who kno\v 

 nothing of the responsibility of the seed business. Careful planters should avoid 

 this kind of stock. 



VAtTG HAN'S SELECTED STOCK 

 Pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; % lb., 35c; lb., SI .25. 



ORDINARY STOCK— Sf(d 

 Pkt., 5c; oz., 10c; Vt lb., 20( ; II 



-Frot! 



best 



iielons 



field. 



ntirc field planted only for seed. 



Oval Gem. ck"^ 



carefully . 



plant. Pkt., 5c; oz., 10c; !. II,., 



Benton Harbor fiem. '[| 



15; ;; lb., ;{0c; lb., .Sl.OO; 5 ! I)s 



Round Gem. ''!! '; !' ; 



Tip Top 



Jble the t 

 ■ctc<i S(< 



jiiX type, 

 •k. A r 



i' the following prices is first-class, 

 li h as no gardener need hesitate to 

 ... 70c. 



' 1' ri i, m iTi.-idr liv the best growers in 

 .Mli l.,n ,1, ,tn. I. Pkt., 10c;o»., 



Pkt., 5c ; oz., 10c ; M lb., 20c ; lb., 60c. 



clon we recommend to every lover of this 



It is a yellow fieshe<l 

 or little, early or lati i 

 flavor, eatable to th' 

 of handsome appear.i: 



Extra Early Hackensack 



1 . a strong grower 

 .. *1.00; 'X lb., SOc. : oz.. 

 This is a selei ' 

 sack, which it 

 10 diiys earlier. The Milons weigh from 4 to 1(> 

 flavor. Those who grow for market should remember il, i 

 as well as the earliest, hardiest and most prolific ol .N 

 Lb., »1.(K»; ]4 lb., .35c.; 2 ozs., 25c.; oz., 15c. 



liackensack. Lb., 90c.; \i lb., 30c.; 2 ozs., 15c 



i ry gardener who grows for 

 V best quality; every Melon produced, big 

 good one. They are sweet, juicy of finest 

 yiclder and 



nd 



Hackcn- 

 l is fully 

 excellent 

 the best. 

 Melons. 



Vaughan's Paul Rose, or Petoskey 



The best and most unit\)rmly lugh quality table .Melon introduced in ten 

 years. No other seeds of Paul Rose Melons can equal our selection in quality, 

 appearance, and evenness of type, because other growers have not the same 

 knowledge or painstaking interest in perfecting the tvpe. We say for Paul 

 Rose Melon Seed come to headquarters. It will pav you. "This is a cross of 

 the Osage with the Netted Gem, ami CMnihines the sweetness ol the former 

 with the fine netting of the Gem. It li;is aNo ilie tiniini ss of iiu at and cheesy 

 structure peculiar to the Osage. In tins respi i t it is suiu rior to any Melon in 

 existence, because of tliis tliiek. solid il, sh. iree froin striiijnness, whieli does 

 not become watery or 'breal; ilown' in l,ee]Min;, ret.iiinii!: ]■■ i v • .is long 



as any other shippiii:' M. |.,i,. Kip-ns ,il...iit lil ,l.r, , e.n ii ■ ■ : i "sage. 

 Flesh, reddish-salnini. ; o,,i ,eie iM-em, n, tt. .l lik,- Cnn" l>i-iee : ' sitor's 

 Selected Stock Seed ( \. ,11 hem MuhuMu Hroun), per lb., .{.">: 'j lb., 40c.; 

 2 oz., 25c.; oz., 15c. 



Vaughan's Regular Stock: Lb.,80c.; \i lb., 25c.; 2 oz., 15c.; oz., lOc; 

 5 lbs., by e.vpress, S3.50. 



Emerald Gem Color, dark green; flesh, thick and of a delicate salmon 



color. P(,r table quality it ranks very high ; it is one of the 



sweetest melons gr.nvn. J,!,., Sl.OO; M lb., .tO<-. : OK-. UU-. 



Vaughan's Chicago Mark et ' " maturuy "la^ge a"! "mi^ 



form size, thickly netted skin, small seed cavitv, deep green flesh, juicy, delicious 

 flavor and freedom from rot. Lb., 70c.; 34 lb., 25c.; oz., 10c. 

 TVt^ 0<;?l<rp fif»m Early as Netted Gem ; same size and shape. Flesh, 

 lb., 40c.; oz., 15c.; 5 lbs., S5.75. 



The Svmnise ^ Melon for local market. High green color and 



I lie Syracuse j,.^^.^^^ . ^ , ^ 



Standard Varieties 



Oz. V lb. I.b 



Extra Early NutincK $0.10 m.aa »0.70 



( haiiiploii .^larket xa .im l,^H!^ 



Landrcth's ( Kron lO .«.'> .70 



•leniiy Kind, Improved lO .54.> .75 



Montreal .Market lO .»« 1.<M> 



Hay View 10 .as .70 



llanana IS .40 1.50 



Ideal 10 .iJS .70 



