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JEROME B. RICE SEED CO., CAMBRIDGE, N. Y 
WATER MELON 
The Famous Stone Mountain Melon 
Cipher 
Citron, Colorado Preserving. Memento 
An improvement on the old preserving Citron; seeds green, fruit 
round to oblong; very productive. 
Citron, Red Seeded.Memoir 
The old, well known, red-seeded preserving melon. 
Excel .Menable 
Largest of the shipping melons; midseason; fruit long, dark green in 
color with an irregular faint striping and covered with a fine 
veining of a darker shade; flesh red and crisp; rind hard and tough; 
seeds gray-brown, but variable as to color. 
Florida Favorite.Mend 
Oblong in shape and grows to a fair size; rtnd light green with 
irregular stripes of a dark green; ten days earlier than Kolb’s Gem; 
quality excellent; seeds white. 
Fordhook Early.Menial 
An extra early variety of fine quality and fair size; form round to 
oblong; skin dark green mottled with a darker shade; flesh bright 
red; seeds white. 
Georgia Rattlesnake (Striped Gypsy).Mental 
Large and oblong; rind very tough and in color a distinctive pale, 
light green, much mottled and striped very dark green; seeds white; 
an attractive and fine shipping melon. 
Golden Honey (Golden Ice Cream).Menting 
An attractive, distinct melon, possessing a dark green rind, oblong 
in form, with a very solid, sweet, canary yellow flesh; very early; 
seeds brown. 
Halbert Honey. Mention 
Shape oblong, well filled to the ends, skin very dark g r een, showing 
a faint longitudinal tracing, or indentation in the rind; medium early 
and fairly large; flesh crimson and very sweet. Seeds white. 
Harris’ Earliest. Mephitis 
A medium-sized, extra early melon, quite identical with Cole’s Early. 
Hungarian Honey. Mercer 
A superb early variety, uniformly girbe-shaped, color dark green, 
mottled and veined with a darker shade; flesh brilliant red, ripening 
clear to the rind and of the highest quality; seeds brown and very 
small. 
Irish Gray.Mercemee 
A large, long, main crop variety with a distinctive, gray-g^een skin; 
shell very tough and hard, making a fine shipper; flesh very firm, 
crisp and sweet; seeds brown. 
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