. Nebraska Seed Co.'s annual catalogue : reliable garden and farm seeds. Nursery stock Nebraska Omaha Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs. THE NEBRASKA SEED CO., OMAHA, NEB. BLACK SPANISH—Earliest:. round, skin dark green, flesh red; rich sugary flavor. MAMMOTH IRONCLAD—Grows to a mammoth size, and pos- sesses all the good qualities of shipping and eating; skin striped, long; very solid to the core, crisp and juicy, often attaining the weight or sixty pounds and upwards. Kolb's Gem 'Watermelon. KOLB'S GEM—It originated with one of the largest melon frowers of Alabama, a
. Nebraska Seed Co.'s annual catalogue : reliable garden and farm seeds. Nursery stock Nebraska Omaha Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs. THE NEBRASKA SEED CO., OMAHA, NEB. BLACK SPANISH—Earliest:. round, skin dark green, flesh red; rich sugary flavor. MAMMOTH IRONCLAD—Grows to a mammoth size, and pos- sesses all the good qualities of shipping and eating; skin striped, long; very solid to the core, crisp and juicy, often attaining the weight or sixty pounds and upwards. Kolb's Gem 'Watermelon. KOLB'S GEM—It originated with one of the largest melon frowers of Alabama, and is a Hybrid of Scaly Bark and Rattlesnake, he rind, though quite thin, is very tough, standiag handling and shipment long distances without breakage. The flesh is of bright red and of excellent flavor. All who have grown it agree in pronouncing it one of the largest, most productive, best keeping and shipping melons ever introduced. DIXIE—In this we have a new water melon of exceuent merits and we can recommend it to our customers as the best shipping melon grown, being even larger, earlier and far more pro- dcctive than the Kolb's Gem, which has heretofore been considered the best melon for shipping. It is of a very fine appearance, being much darker than Kolb's Gem and more beautifully striped; it is longer and extremely hardy, while its eating quality is unexcelled, being sweet, juicy and tender. Another very important point is its productiveness, having six to eight large melons on a vine. THE BOSS—This is one of the first among the earliest; very productive and of delicious flavor. In shape it is oblong, color very dark, flesh of an unusually deep scarlet, rich in sugar, delicious melting flavor. JUMBO—The shape is rouna, color green with faint lighter stripes; ieep-red meat, surpassing all other varieties as much in flavor as in size, and as a market melon sells more rapidly and for higher prices. They grow to weigh eighty pounds—from 40 to 60 pounds is c
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