. Everything for the garden : 1906 . grower RED OR SALMON-FLESHED VARIETIES. Banquet, Hendersons. A medium-sized, round, flattened, beautifully net-ted Melon; flesh dark, rich salmon and of the highest quality; granulated,sweet and melting Cannes. Dark olive-green, deeply ribbed fruits with thick salmon-red flesh,ripening to the rind; texture and flavor delicious; vigorous and productive. Emerald Gem. No variety surpasses this for flavor; the thick salmon-coloredflesh is granular, rich and delicious. It is exceedingly early, prolific and long-bearing; fruits small, smooth-skinned, deep emerald
. Everything for the garden : 1906 . grower RED OR SALMON-FLESHED VARIETIES. Banquet, Hendersons. A medium-sized, round, flattened, beautifully net-ted Melon; flesh dark, rich salmon and of the highest quality; granulated,sweet and melting Cannes. Dark olive-green, deeply ribbed fruits with thick salmon-red flesh,ripening to the rind; texture and flavor delicious; vigorous and productive. Emerald Gem. No variety surpasses this for flavor; the thick salmon-coloredflesh is granular, rich and delicious. It is exceedingly early, prolific and long-bearing; fruits small, smooth-skinned, deep emerald-green with light stripes. Millers Cream, or Osage. Medium to large, slightly oval and handsomelynetted; flesh rich salmon, deep, firm, sweet and melting Paul Rose. This splendid variety is a cross between Netted Gem and Millers Cream, combining the best qualities of both. It ripens an im-mense number of moderate-sized fruits; flesh salmon, deep, sweet and richlyflavored; rind tough and thin; seed cavity small; healthy and robust. MELON, WATER. (1 oz. for 30 hills; 4 to 5 lbs. in hills for an acre.) Cuban Queen. Large oval melons; striped dark and light green; flesh red andof excellent quality; the best late sort Coles Early. (See page SI.) A delicious and productive variety succeedingin Northern States where melons never ripened before. The melons areseldom over 12 inches long by 9 inches in diameter, but make up forlack of size by bearingprolifically throughout the season. Flesh bright redand luscious, cool, sparkling and sweet Citron. Small round fruits, for preserves only Dixie. A large, oblong, dark striped Melon; a famous shipper Florida Favorite. One of the earliest and best of the large oblong melons, at-taining enormous size; succeeding further North than other large varieties;rind thin but hard, mottled light and dark green; flesh clear crimson almost tothe rind; flavor sweet and melting Ice Cream. (White-seeded.) A medium-sized, almost round Melon, succeed-ing well i
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