CULTURE. 
MUSK MELONS 
than manure, but if the latter is used, see that 
it is well rotted. If the plants grow very rank, more and finer fruit will be secured by pinching off the ends of the shoots when 
three feet long. The quality of melons of all varieties is largely dependent upon conditions of growth and ripening. Unhealthy 
vines or unfavorable weather produces fruit of comparatively poor flavor. 
-Cultivate as recom- 
mended for cucumbers, 
except that the hills should be six feet apart. 
Rich earth for the young plants is far better 
Burrell Gem 
A grand new shipping melon. Flesh from 
orange to salmon color. Exceptionally 
sweet flavored. Shape slightly oblong and 
slightly ribbed. Skin is a dark green color with close brownish netting. Rind 
thin but tough. Has thick firm meat. Has stood shipping from Western melon 
growing states to New York without icing. 
Emerald Gem 
A splendid variety. Fruit small to 
medium size, globular, or slightly 
flattened at the ends, only slightly 
netted and ribbed. Skin deep green 
while young, becoming slightly 
tinged with yellow as the fruit 
matures ; flesh deep salmon-yellow, 
thick, ripening close to the rind and exceedingly high flavored. This variety has 
steadily grown in popular favor, and in many large markets leads all other kinds, 
because of its sweetness and convenient size. 
EXTRA EARLY HACKENSACK. 
Extra Early Hackensack 
We offer under this name a 
very distinct stock, different 
and much superior to that 
often sold as Extra Early Hackensack. The fruit is medium sized, nearly round, 
with deep ribs and very coarse netting. The flesh is green, a little coarse but 
very juicy and sweet. 
Improved Surp 
rise 
No other Musk Melon ever introduced has 
met with so great favor as our strain of the 
Surprise Melon. This same melon is also sold 
as Tip-Top and Irondequoit. Either for mar- 
ket gardeners or for home use the Improved 
Surprise in its season is unequalled by any 
melon grown. Vines hardy, and productive; 
fruit oval, not deeply ribbed, covered with 
slight patches of netting; skin yellowish 
white ; flesh deep salmon color, very rich 
and high flavored. 
Osage 
or Improved 
Miller’s Cream 
Fruit medium sized, oval, slightly ribbed, 
dark green in color, covered more or less with 
shallow netting. The flesh is deep salmon 
colored and very thick, there being but a 
slight cavity in the center of even the largest 
fruit. A favorite variety for the later markets. 
We have taken a great deal of pains to develop 
the thick, deep, rich colored and fine flavored 
flesh of this sort, and careful comparisons on 
our trial grounds prove it to be unequalled, 
even by “Special Selected Seed’’, offered at 
very high prices. 
An Early, New, Rich Orange Fleshed Table Luxury 
This melon in gen- 
eral characteristics is 
very similar to the 
famous Rocky Ford, except that the Sensation is a true orange fleshed melon of the finest quality and flavor. Vines are extremely 
hardy and very productive, blesh is very thick, entirely free from strings, and there is but a small seed cavity. Skin is entirely 
covered with netting, making it one of the very best shipping melons. 
Sensation 
IMPROVED SURPRISE MUSK MELON 
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