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SAVE MONEY BY GETTING UT A SEED CLUB IN YOUR GRANGE 
Little Miss Gray, 4 years old, holding a 151fc 
Melon raised from our Thousand Dollar 
Musk Melon seed. 
A GRAND MELON 
FOR NEW ENGLAND 
Metcalf’s “Thousand Dollar” Musk Melon 
This melon has been grown by Mr. Metcalf of Cumberland 
County for over twenty years, of whom we secured a small supply 
of seed. 
The following is his description: 
“More than 20 years ago, a horticultural friend told me he had 
been talking with a man interested in gardening who told him of 
a superior variety of Musk Melon he was growing. Soon after he 
gave him a few of the seeds; these he divided with me. We both 
planted them the next season with good success. After they had 
ripened I called at the home of my friend one evening. When he 
brought in a nice looking melon and opened it, as he did so, Its 
fine appearance and delightful odor caused him to exclaim: ‘Ah! 
That’s worth a thousand dollars.’ Since then it has been known 
as the Thousand Dollar Melon. I have continued to plant this 
variety every year since, saving seeds from the best and first to 
ripen each year and know of no other variety any better or will 
ripen as early.” 
Mr. G. W. Higgins of Upper Gloucester, Maine, writes us as fol¬ 
lows: “Last year I raised from your seed of the Thousand Dollar 
Musk Melon, one melon that weighed 20 pounds and 14 ounces. 
The flesh was as tender, fine grained and as sweet as the smaller 
ones weighing from 6 to 10 pounds each.” 
Pine Tree State Seed Co.. 
Bath, Maine. 
Dear Sir: 
Five Islands, Maine. 
Jan. 5. 1933. 
Enclosed you will find a snapshot of my 4 year old daughter, 
Charlotte Jean Gray, holding a 15 pound melon raised from your 
Metcalf’s Thousand Dollar Musk Melon seed which I planted in 
my vegetable garden in May, 1932 and which were gathered in 
September following. The next one in point of size weighed 12 
pounds and 10 ounces and many weighing from 7 to 12 pounds 
each, all of which were of very delicious flavor Never have I 
found melons which are such good yielders as are these. 
Yours truly. 
VERNON E. GRAY. 
Your Thousand Dollar Musk Melon is the best melon 
I ever saw, very meaty and the finest flavor. Grew some 
that weighed 14 rbs. and they were Just as good as those 
that weighed 5 to 8 pounds. 
Auburn, Me. W. P. JONES. 
The Melons averaged six to ten pounds. 
Price per packet, 15c. Maine Grown Seed. 
Per Yi oz. 25c; oz. 45c. 
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If Yon Want the Beet AU-aromid Mwfc Melon, Plant Our Thousand Dollar Melon 
