. Burpee's farm annual, 1887 : garden, farm, and flower seeds. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs. PRIDE OF GEORGIA WATERMELON. PRIDE OF GEORGIA. This new watermelon from Georgia is decidedly better in quality than the Scaly Bark, while the rind is equally as hard, and, conse- quently, it is an excellent shipping variety. The melons are perfectly round in shape, striped light and dark green, uniformly of fair market size; the flesh is bright red, ripening up well and of very good quality. Per pkt. xo cts ; oz. 15 cts.; lb 40
. Burpee's farm annual, 1887 : garden, farm, and flower seeds. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs. PRIDE OF GEORGIA WATERMELON. PRIDE OF GEORGIA. This new watermelon from Georgia is decidedly better in quality than the Scaly Bark, while the rind is equally as hard, and, conse- quently, it is an excellent shipping variety. The melons are perfectly round in shape, striped light and dark green, uniformly of fair market size; the flesh is bright red, ripening up well and of very good quality. Per pkt. xo cts ; oz. 15 cts.; lb 40 cts. ; per lT> $ Ill lb CUBAN QUEEN WATERMELON. BURPEE'S CUBAN QUEEN. This magnificent new melon from the West Indies was first brought promi- nently before the public by us, in 1881. The above illustration, engraved from a photograph, gives a fair idea of their form and markings. The skin is beau- tifully striped, dark and light green, of the latter, there being two shades, agreeably diversified. Their flesh is bright red, remarkably solid, luscious and sugary. In delicious flavor it equals the celebrated Icing. They are wonderfully solid and their rind is unusually thin, being scarcely more than half an inch thick on a melon of enormous size. A Cuban Queen, the size of a forty- five pound melon of some common variety, will weigh from sixty to sixty-five pounds, so very much heavier and more solid are they. They are enormously pro- ductive, yielding heavier crops than any other variety we have ever grown, 1 he vines are verystrong, healthy and vigorous in growth. They ripen early, maturing fine, large melons, even in Canada, and are suited for all sections. Their enormous size, handsome appearance, thin rind, red flesh and delicious taste, are so captivating that they bring extra prices wherever put on sale. In 1883, John G. Miller, Esq., of Stone Mountain, Georgia, raiseci three Cuban Queens from seed bought of us, weighing, respectively, eighty-one pounds, ninety- s
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