. Key to profit in the garden. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. Green Gage. , Melon.—Spanish, Melon. 1 oz for 60 hills ; 2 to 3 lbs. in hill for an acre. NEW GOLDEN MANGO MELON. After a careful test, we pronounce this a wonderful acquisition. It is. as may be seen by the cut, of good size, weighing 2 to 4 lbs. £ each. Of a dark green color outside, heavily netted, while inside they are of a e8 rich emerald green color, and we venture ~ to say with thicker flesh than any other »r varie
. Key to profit in the garden. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. Green Gage. , Melon.—Spanish, Melon. 1 oz for 60 hills ; 2 to 3 lbs. in hill for an acre. NEW GOLDEN MANGO MELON. After a careful test, we pronounce this a wonderful acquisition. It is. as may be seen by the cut, of good size, weighing 2 to 4 lbs. £ each. Of a dark green color outside, heavily netted, while inside they are of a e8 rich emerald green color, and we venture ~ to say with thicker flesh than any other »r variety in cultivation, there being's scarcely room for the seeds. As to flavor g they take the lead of all, and are far^ ahead of everything else at present cultivated. It can be recommended alike „ for either home or market use. One of our largest New Jersey melon growers, » a man who annually makes it a business to try all the new sorts, made the remark, £ although he had tried fifty different sorts during the last ten years, he had yet faiUd to * find anything that would anywhere approach our Golden Mango in quality, productiveness © or everything that goes to make a perfect melon. Pkt. 5c, oz. ioc, ^ lb. 30c, lb. $ IS GREENGAGE. Theg universal testimony of every one using the Green Gage ® is, that every fruit produced, £ whether big or little, early £ or late in the season, is a 2 good one—sweet, juicy, g finest flavor, firm but not * hard fleshed, eatable to the ^ very outside coating. For j three or four years it has £ been grown exclusively for one fancy vegetable stand . in this city, and the prices obtained, even up to the past season, were always double that of other varieties ol Musk- "C melons. When melons of ordinary kinds were bringing ten to twenty cents each, the — Green Gage sold easily for twenty to forty cents, and best specimens sold readily for fifty cents to those who knew the melon. The Green Gage will weigh ten to fifteen pounds, s
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