. Beckert's descriptive illustrated seed catalogue : vegetable, flower and field seeds. Commercial catalogs Seeds; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Garden tools Catalogs. LIST OF VEGETABLE SEEDS. WATER MELON. (Wassermelone.) Although the Water Melon is a tropical fruit, and can be most easily grown at the South ona warm, rich, sandy soil, yet no one need abandon its culture because he has not these conditions, for one of the sweetest w^ns we ever ate was grown in Michigan, and in the latitude of 45 degrees north, and Cuban Queen weighing 69 pounds ha-^ie
. Beckert's descriptive illustrated seed catalogue : vegetable, flower and field seeds. Commercial catalogs Seeds; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Garden tools Catalogs. LIST OF VEGETABLE SEEDS. WATER MELON. (Wassermelone.) Although the Water Melon is a tropical fruit, and can be most easily grown at the South ona warm, rich, sandy soil, yet no one need abandon its culture because he has not these conditions, for one of the sweetest w^ns we ever ate was grown in Michigan, and in the latitude of 45 degrees north, and Cuban Queen weighing 69 pounds ha-^ieen raised on cold clay soil in northern Ohio. The essential thing in culture is to get a good strong vine early in the season, which may be secured by forming a large, well-drained hill of rich earth, avoiding using the manure in such a way as to cause the plant to dry out under the hot sun. On this hill plant the seed as soon as the ground is warm and dry, and carefully protect the young plants from insects, and hasten their growth by the use of liquid manure. B^One ounce will plant 60 hills. All varieties, unless marked otherwise, are 5c per pkt. If by mail add 8c per for shipping, keeping a long tioie without decay. Size ex- tremely large and uniform, and vine an immense yielder, of excellent quality. Phinney's Early. Early and productive, flesh deep red and of superior and Gold. â¢â -Vj ' Mountain Sweet Oblong iQ form skin dark .^"""Jljjjii i V^'^"- flesh red, solid ana^ '' ~ ^ very sweet. lack Spanish. Large in size and nearly round, skin 1^-^ â dark green, flai4H'=***''?^J'y red, sweet and de- cious. Vick's Early. Long and smooth, rather small, tls«*N bright pink, solid and sweet, verv early. ^ Scaly Bark. Excellent for ship- ping, rind thin, but very tough and strong, flesh light crimson, tender. pKt., I irJtb, f /'-Flori oc per oz., for postage, 25c per 1^ lb., 75c per pound. r Dark Icing, or Ice Rind. Of medium size and very prolifi
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