WHOLESALE SEED GROWERS 
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Watermelon Tel. 
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; rind light green with irregular 
stripes of a dark green; ten days earlier than Kolb’s Gem; quality excel¬ 
lent; 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 at¬ 
tractive 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 green, showing a 
faint longitudinal tracing, or indention 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 globe-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-green skin; shell 
very tough and hard, making a fine shipper; flesh very firm, crisp and 
sweet; seeds brown. 
Kleckley’s Sweets, or Monte Cristo.Mercy 
Medium to large in size, medium early and exceedingly sweet; oblong in 
form, slightly tapering towards the stem; rind very dark green; flesh 
very bright, rich red and ripens nearly to the rind; too tender for a 
shipping melon; seeds white to light brown. 
Klondike .Mercup 
A popular melon in the West especially in California, having a dark 
green, thin shallow ribbed, tough rind and attactive bright red flesh of 
very good quality; seeds small, black. A good shipping sort. 
Fong Light Icing (Gray Monarch).Mercury 
Grows long and to a large size; medium early and productive; rind light 
pale-green, with a light mottled tracing of a slightly darker shade; flesh 
brilliant crimson and of exceptional quality; seeds white. 
Peerless, or Ice Cream (Seeds White).Merger 
Very early, of medium size and one of the best for growing in the North; 
a short oblong in form; rind thin, light green, mottled and finely veined 
with a darker shade; flesh bright scarlet and very sweet. 
Round Dark Icing.Mermaid 
Medium to large in size, moderately early and good in quality; fruit 
round and dark green; flesh bright red; seeds white. 
Round Light Icing.Merman 
Moderately early, of fair size and nearly round; rind very light green, in¬ 
distinctly veined and dotted with a slightly darker shade; flesh bright 
red; seeds white. 
