. Spring catalogue : 1899. Nurseries (Horticulture) Missouri Saint Louis Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. MELON, Musk or Cantaloupe. Melone, Ger.; Melon Muscade, Fr_; Melones Muscatel, Sp. 1 oz. for 60 hills; 3 to 3 pounds in hills for an acre. The best soil for fine melons Is a rich, warm, sandy loam. Make broad, shallow hills six feet apart each way. Plant ten or fifteen seeds In each hill, after the ground has become warm. When well started, thin to three or four stocky plants In each hill. For large
. Spring catalogue : 1899. Nurseries (Horticulture) Missouri Saint Louis Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. MELON, Musk or Cantaloupe. Melone, Ger.; Melon Muscade, Fr_; Melones Muscatel, Sp. 1 oz. for 60 hills; 3 to 3 pounds in hills for an acre. The best soil for fine melons Is a rich, warm, sandy loam. Make broad, shallow hills six feet apart each way. Plant ten or fifteen seeds In each hill, after the ground has become warm. When well started, thin to three or four stocky plants In each hill. For large melons, pinch off the ends of the long runners. „ Muskmelon, Netted Gem. EXTRA EARLY variety Is fully ten days earlier than the old Hackensack, which It resembles; the melons weigh from four to six pounds, and are of excellent flavor. It Is one of the hardiest and most productive of all the va- rieties of Muskmelon (see cut). EARLY NETTED the earliest, best and most prolific small mel- ons; grows very uniform In size and shape, weighing from 114 to IV2 lbs. Flesh light green and of a very fine flavor. MONTREAL, MARKET—The fruit Is nearly round, fastened at the end; deep and very regularly ribbed; skin green, melting and of a delicious flavor; excellent variety for growing very large specimens, often weighing 10 lbs. and upward (see cut). JERSEY BELL.—An early variety of a very large size, being about ten days earlier than the nutmeg; fine netted green flesh variety. EXTRA EARLV HACKENSACK EARLY NETTED GEM (see cm*) MONTREAL MARKET JERSEY BELL GREEN CITRON BAY VIEW EMERALD GEM MILLER'S CREAM NUTMEG PERFECTION DELMOSICO NEWPORT TIPTOP GOLDEN EAGLE SWEET, POT OR MEDICINAL HERBS. No garden is complete without a few herbs for culinary or medicinal purposes-, and care should be taken to harvest them properly. This should be done on a dry day, just before they come Into full bloom, then dried quickly and packed closely, entirely excluded from the air
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