. Annual circular and retail catalogue of choice vegetable and flower seeds. Gardening United States Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds United States Catalogs; Fruit Seeds United States Catalogs. Cream-Fleshed Sculptnred-Seeded. This new Melon came to me as a new Watermelon from Japan. The seed have a singular appearance as though engraved with oriental characters. I add a description by a gentleman who raised them on a large scale last season. Per package 25 cts. " In size it is about medium, color much like the Phinney's but darker and more regularly striped, flesh very t
. Annual circular and retail catalogue of choice vegetable and flower seeds. Gardening United States Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds United States Catalogs; Fruit Seeds United States Catalogs. Cream-Fleshed Sculptnred-Seeded. This new Melon came to me as a new Watermelon from Japan. The seed have a singular appearance as though engraved with oriental characters. I add a description by a gentleman who raised them on a large scale last season. Per package 25 cts. " In size it is about medium, color much like the Phinney's but darker and more regularly striped, flesh very tender and melting, sweet and delicious. I have heretofore been prejudiced against '? white cored" Watermelons but I think this the best eating melon I ever tasted, and this seems to be the general opinion of all who have eaten of them I took some to our Fair, where there were much larger and better looking ones than mine, but when the judges came around and tested their quality they unhesitatingly gave mine the first premium lhe melons are quite tender and thin shelled, and will not bear rough handling, but they proved to be first rate keepers notwithstanding ; I kept lots of them nearly two months after picking. The vines seem to be more productive than any other variety I have tried. On the whole I am much pleased with this variety, and if I raise a crop this year for market, I shall plant this ; Jan. M, 1872. Luther Phinney's Watermelon is of a very elegant mot- tled grass green color, is exceedingly prolific, very early, sweet and of delicious flavor, while it excels in its capacity to bear transportation for long distances. I learn from corres- pondents in the South, that they are raising it largely as an early sort for the Northern markets. Per package 10 cts. ; per ounce 25 cts. ; per lb. $ Sill' g^reenish-white S New Melon. Of medium size, color outside flesh of a salmon color. Early, very produc- tive, quality first-class. In delicacy of
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