. Burpee's farm annual : the best seeds that grow including rare novelties. Nurseries (Horticulture) Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. BURPEE'S WHITE GEM WATERMELON. BURPEE'S WHITE GEM. Perfectly round in shape, weighing fifteen to twenty pounds each, of a beautiful cream-white color when ripe, only faintly striped. The skin is so tough that a melon fully ripe will sup- port a man without even cracking the flesh— this notwithstanding that the rind is only a scant half-inch in thickness. In a cut m
. Burpee's farm annual : the best seeds that grow including rare novelties. Nurseries (Horticulture) Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. BURPEE'S WHITE GEM WATERMELON. BURPEE'S WHITE GEM. Perfectly round in shape, weighing fifteen to twenty pounds each, of a beautiful cream-white color when ripe, only faintly striped. The skin is so tough that a melon fully ripe will sup- port a man without even cracking the flesh— this notwithstanding that the rind is only a scant half-inch in thickness. In a cut melon the beautiful flesh seems almost to touch the skin. The flesh is a rick, bright pink, crisp, melting, very juicy, and deliciously sweet in flavor; fully as luscious as The Hungarian Honey. Per pkt. 10 cts.; oz. 15 cts.; % ft 35 cts.; per ft § HUNGARIAN HONEY WATERMELON. BURPEE'S HUNGARIAN HONEY. The melon from which the illustration was taken weighed eleven and one-half pounds, and measured twenty-eight and one- half inches in stem and blossom end circumference, being practically a perfect globe in shape. All the melons were as "alike as two peas"—none varying in shape or color, and scarcely a variance of two pounds in weight—making it remarkably " thorough- /tttt^V ; The color of the skin is a handsome, I XAAf] medium dark green, with dim waterings of a \~*~y darker green. The Hungarian Honey Melon is very appropriately so called, as it is sur- passingly sweet and LUSCIOUS, of a very rich honey flavor, richer and sweeter to the taste than any other watermelon. The flesh is of an intensely brilliant red color and absolutely stringless—completely melting in the mouth—and of the same beautiful red color up to within one-fourth of an inch or less of the outer skin. The melons ripen early; the vines make a strong, healthv growth and are verv productive. Per pkt. 5 cts.; oz. 10 cts.; % ft 30 cts.; per ft § JORDAN'S GRAY MONARCH, O
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