. Bliss and Sons' illustrated hand-book for the farm and garden for 1881 : containing a list of the best known and most poplular varieties of garden, field & flower seeds, selected from our large assortment of nearly three thousand varieties with brief directions for their culture. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. For the Farm and Garden. 8y. Mountain Sweet Water-melon. Citron Water-nnelon. MELON (Water). l^Cyxurhita. citndlus
. Bliss and Sons' illustrated hand-book for the farm and garden for 1881 : containing a list of the best known and most poplular varieties of garden, field & flower seeds, selected from our large assortment of nearly three thousand varieties with brief directions for their culture. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. For the Farm and Garden. 8y. Mountain Sweet Water-melon. Citron Water-nnelon. MELON (Water). l^Cyxurhita. citndlus Li:s^. Jlelon d'eau, Fr. Wasserynelo/ie, Ger. Za'udia, Sp.] Culture.—Plant in liills, six to eight feet apart, in :Maj-. Select warm, light, dry ground, and in pre- paring the hiUs let them he dng out broad, and deep as the soil will admit: till at least one-third full of the best decomposed stable manure, and mix thoroughly with the soil, tilling up a little above the level of the ground. The plants will fruit better by occasionally pinching the leading shoots off the vines. One ounce of .seed will be sufficient for about one hundred hills. Ifiiy mail in quantities of 4 ounces and upwards, postage mustbe added at the rate of 16 cents per pound. Phinney cEarly Oval).—Bright, red flesh, sweet, tender, and well-flavored: fine market variety. Perpkt., 10 cents; oz., 15 ; h lb., 30: lb., Cripsey.—A very superior variety, lately introduc- ed ; oblong, light gieen, beautifully mottled and striped with white : flesh scarlet, very solid; seeds white, rind thin, delicious flavor : one of the best market varieties. Per pkt., 5 cents: oz., 15 ; h lb., 30; lb.,.< Black Spanish.—Hound, verj- dark green, with scarlet flesh, and black seeds. Very tliin rind, rich sugary flavor. Per pkt., 5 cents; oz., 15; \ lb., 30; lb., Monntain Sweet.—One of the very best for general culture : color dark green, rind thin, flesh scarlet, solid, verv sweet and delicious. Perpkt
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