. Burpee's sweet peas for 1900 : preliminary wholesale prices also of vegetable seeds. Nurseries (Horticulture) Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs. Burpee's Netted Gem, First introduced by us eighteen years ago, is the variety that has made Colorado so famous for its "ROCKY FORD" Melons. Sold also as " THE ALAMO " and << DEWEY GEM " Nutmegs. Although we have claimed for years that Burpee's Netted Gem was the best melon for market, yet truckers maintained that many cities (such as New
. Burpee's sweet peas for 1900 : preliminary wholesale prices also of vegetable seeds. Nurseries (Horticulture) Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs. Burpee's Netted Gem, First introduced by us eighteen years ago, is the variety that has made Colorado so famous for its "ROCKY FORD" Melons. Sold also as " THE ALAMO " and << DEWEY GEM " Nutmegs. Although we have claimed for years that Burpee's Netted Gem was the best melon for market, yet truckers maintained that many cities (such as New York and Chicago) required larger and '' more showy '' melons. At last, the wide-awake growers of Eocky Ford, Colorado, have '' taken the country by storm '' in shipping neat crates of carefully packed " Eocky Foed " Melons to all our large cities. Even New Yorkers have passed by their handsome "Hackensacks" to give the preference to the sweeter and now famous "Eocky Foed Melons" from Colorado. Several seedsmen, eager to supply the demand sure to follow throughout the country, have advertised seed of the "New Rocky Ford Melon," not know- ing, evidently, that this was only a brand name for the choice melons grown from seed of Burpee's Netted Gem, which was introduced first by us in 1881. J$HP Our customers may be interested in the description and modest illustration, reprinted herewith from our catalogue of ten years ago. In this connection it is appropriate, also, to print the accompanying letter, which was received, entirely unsolicited, from the late De. Eobt. P. Haeeis, of Philadelphia, who was recognized as the highest authority on Melons in America. In order to forestall any criticism on the part of either seedsmen or growers in thinking that we might be mistaken in stating that the "Eocky Foed" and other Western brands that have become most popular the last few years were all of our NETTED GEM variety, we print below a let
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