WM. HENRY MAULE, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Vegetable Seeds — 53 



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Wonderful Shipper 



A green fleshed variety of the most 

 exquisite quality. The handsomest, best 

 netted and most profitable early melon 

 in existence for market gardeners and 

 shippers. The finest rust resisting melon 

 on the market. 



(Green flesh.) It gives me much 

 pleasure to be able to ofi'er to my cus- 

 tomers this grand early solid net strain 

 of Rocky Ford. It has the heaviest, 

 thickest flesh and the smallest seed 

 cavity of all the Hocky Ford musk- 

 melons. The illustration is a repro- 

 duction of a photograph. Its oval 

 shape is the same as the Bocky Ford 

 with a solid white netting. The aver- 

 age yield is over 250 crates per acre of i 

 A No. 1 shipx^ing melons, fully a third! 

 more than other sorts. The extra thick j 

 green flesh has a beautiful piukish hue 

 of the most delicious quality, and is 

 one of the best rust resisting melons 

 ever produced. It is a wonderful pro- 

 ducer and a profitable market sort; a 

 remarkably fine shipper. My seed is 

 direct from headquarters, grown fii 

 Rocky Ford, Colorado, 



Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; 

 quarter pound, 30 cents; pound, $1.00. 



POLLOOK'o SOLID ROCK MUSKMELON, 



Maule's Perfection 



The most delicious of all large melons. 

 Weigh 8 to 10 pounds each, and attracts 

 attention anywhere. Flesh from 2 to 3 inches 

 in thickness, and in shape and general appear- 

 ance it resembles the large French melons 

 sold on the fruit stands at $1.00 to $2.00 each. 



(Salmon flesh.) I am very glad indeed to an- 

 nounce this year that I have a very fine crop of 

 Maule's Perfection Muskmelou. The shape is 

 well shown in the illustration herewith; color of 

 skin is a deep rich green, well ribbed and thickly 

 netted, while the flesh is a rich salmon. Tlie 

 melon is nearly all flesh, the interior being very 

 small, hardly large enough to accommodate the 

 seed. In flavor it is simply unexcelled, and it 

 certainly jiistifles its name, given by me in 1881, 

 by its past experience and real merit. I can 

 safely challenge any seedsman in America to 

 produce a finer melon in flavor or aiipearance. 

 It is so thick flesJjed that one melon is enough 

 for three or four people under ordinary circiiitj- 

 staiices, and in a patch of an acre or more you can 

 find hundreds of melons that very closely resemble 

 the large French melons sold on fruit stands. If 

 it has a fault it is in the fact that it will not stand 

 shipping like Rocky Ford, but for the home gar- 

 den or near inarket trade it is unsurpassed. 



Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 15 cents; 

 quarter pound, 40 cents; pound, $1.50, postpaid. 



MAULE'S PERFECTION MUSKMELON. 



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(Orange flesh.) This is a fine, nearly round in 

 shape melon of such attractive appearance as to 

 always sell quickly in the markets. It is sweet, 

 juicy and delicious. The flesh is firm but not hard, 

 and is edible almost to the rind. The melon is of 

 medium to large size, evenly ribbed and moder- 

 ately netted; a strong grower, heavy yielder and of 

 handsome appearance. This melon has been 



Tip Top Muskmelon 



grown for a number of years hy market gardeners 

 near Rochester, N. Y., also Columbus, Ohio, and has 

 proved so superior in every way, that there is prac- 

 tically no other variety grown for this market. Its 

 appearance on the market stall is very attractive, 

 sells on sight; customers soon learn to pick them out 

 and will have no other variety. Packet, 5 ceiitss 

 oiiuce, 15 cts.; j>ouucl, 10 cts.; pouud, |I1.50. 



TIP TOP MUSKMELON, 



