. Spring catalogue : 1902. Nursery stock Missouri Saint Louis Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Missouri Saint Louis Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. 12 C. YOUNG & SONS CO., ST. LOUIS, MELON, MUSK OR CANTALOUPE. One ounce for 60 hills; two to three pounds in hills to an acre. The rich, broad. bsst soil for flne melons Is a warm, sandy loam. Make 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
. Spring catalogue : 1902. Nursery stock Missouri Saint Louis Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Missouri Saint Louis Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. 12 C. YOUNG & SONS CO., ST. LOUIS, MELON, MUSK OR CANTALOUPE. One ounce for 60 hills; two to three pounds in hills to an acre. The rich, broad. bsst soil for flne melons Is a warm, sandy loam. Make 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 HACKENSACK, EXTRA EAKI,T â This variety Is tuUy ten days earlier than the old Hackensack, which It resembles. It Is one of the hardiest and most productive of all the varieties of Muskmelon. a very uniform size, averaging about IV2 lbs. each; they are thick meated, with a thin rind; skin, green; regular ribbed and heavily netted. PERFECTION DELMONICOâThis Improved type Is almost a perfect Globe in shape, the flesh Is a deep, rich orange yellow, of a very flne grain. EMERALD GEMâThis is the finest flavor of all muskmelons very early ripening, and unequaled for home use or early market TIPTOPâThis Is the best muskmelon In cultivation, either large or small, for a sweet, juicy flavor, it has no equal. The flesh Is Arm and edible to the outside coating. JERSE7 BEIitâOne of the earliest, best and most prolific small melons; grows very uniform in size and shape. Flesh, light green and of a very flne flavor. MONTREAX MARKETâThe fruit Is nearly round, fastened at the end; deep and very regularly ribbed; skin, green; melting, and -of a delicious flavor. JERSEY BELLâAn early variety of a very large size, being «bout ten days earlier than the nutmeg; flne netted green flesh variety. ROCKY FORD-This has become one of the most popular of ^mall melons; the seed we offer has been grown from a ca
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