Jerome B. Rice Seed Co., Growers of Choice Garden Seeds, Cambridge, N. Y. 
MUSKMELON 
or CANTALOUPE 
Culture — A rich, deep sandy loam, well worked and highly manured with old rotten com¬ 
post, is of the first importance. Plant when all danger of frost is over, in hills 5 to 6 feet apart 
each way; scatter a dozen seeds to a hill, and after they are out of danger from bugs, thin to 
three or four plants. When they have four or five rough leaves pinch off the end of the main 
shoot, which will cause the lateral branches to put forth sooner. This will strengthen the growth 
of the vines, and the fruit will come earlier to maturity. 
One ounce will plant about 80 hills; 3 pounds to one acre in hills 
GREEN FLESHED 
EXTRA EARLY KNIGHT —The earliest high quality 
melon and especially adapted for growing in the far 
North. A medium sized variety with oblong fruit dis¬ 
tinctly ribbed and well covered with a close gray 
netting; skin deep green, turning to golden at ma¬ 
turity; flesh fairly thick, exceedingly sweet, and of a 
bright green color. Worthy of a place in every garden. 
GOLDEN HONEYMOON, NEW —A great improve¬ 
ment over the original Honey Dew. Fruits very at¬ 
tractive. The skin has a rich velvety, golden color, 
which sells the melon on sight. Earlier than Honey 
Dew by two weeks and slightly smaller in size, it should 
be grown successfully in the East. Vines said to be 
disease resistant. Very productive, flesh green, ripens 
clear to the rind, and is very sweet. We consider it a 
valuable addition to the melon list. Our melon expert, 
Mr. George H. Nieman, paid the originator $1,000.00 
for the first original half acre so that we own and 
control all of the originator’s stock seed. 
HACKENSACK, EXTRA EARLY IMPROVED —A se¬ 
lection from the old Hackensack, maturing from a 
week to ten days earlier. Somewhat smaller and not so 
deeply ribbed, but otherwise similar to the old type. 
Fruit large, round, flattened at the ends, deeply and 
irregularly ribbed, coarsely and heavily netted; flesh 
green, thick and of fine quality. 
HONEY DEW, or ANTIBES — Fruit large, oval in form, 
with a smooth, hard, lemon-tinted shell, without rib¬ 
bing or netting; flesh light emerald-green. 
OHIO SUGAR —Similar to Tip-Top in size and form 
but with a green rather than a salmon flesh. 
ROCKY FORD — Fruit is small, almost round, having 
no ribs and densely covered with a heavy, hard, gray 
netting; flesh thick and deep green, showing a faint 
lining of pink at the center. A high quality shipping 
melon. 
SALMON FLESHED 
BANANA CANTALOUPE —Shaped as name indicates 
and growing about 2 Vj feet long; flesh deep salmon 
colored. 
BENDER'S SURPRISE — A very popular, adaptable va¬ 
riety of the Surprise type, being a close kin of Iron- 
dequoit and Tip-Top, but with a quality far superior. 
It is more oblong, more full and rounded at the ends. 
The skin when ripe is light greenish-yellow; flesh a 
very deep salmon. While originally grown only in the 
market districts of Northern New York, it is now one 
of the leading melons in Canada and successfully 
grown in a large way as far north as Minneapolis. 
Strongly recommended for either home or market 
garden. 
DELICIOUS — Best described as an early strain of 
the famous Bender melon and while a trifle smaller 
in size, possesses all the good qualities of its parent. 
Not to be confused with a green-fleshed variety bear¬ 
ing a similar name. Popular for home markets. 
EMERALD GEM —-Unquestionably one of the 
best and earliest melons for home garden and 
local markets and in our opinion the best for 
quality; of medium size, a flattened globe in 
form, irregularly and distinctly ribbed and 
lightly netted; color deep emerald green; flesh 
very thick, sweet and of rich salmon color; 
seed cavity exceedingly small. 
EXTRA EARLY OSAGE — Quite similar to the 
old type Osage. Of the same high quality al¬ 
though about a week earlier. 
FORDHOOK —A medium sized melon, round, 
much flattened at the ends, ribbed and fairly 
netted; skin deep emerald-green; flesh orange- 
yellow; quality fine. 
HALE'S BEST — Decidedly the earliest of the 
Rocky Ford type of shipping melons. These 
average as large of any of this class of melons 
DELICIOUS • and have a sweet, sugary, salmon flesh. 
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