. 1900 catalogue of Plant Seed Company : reliable vegetable, farm, and flower seeds. Nursery stock Missouri Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs. FLORIDA FAVORITE—This variety is very early and one of the finest table melons extant; oblong in shape, and growing to a very large size; rind dark with light green stripes, flesh light crimson, very crisp and deliciously sweet; seed rather small and of a light creamy-whit* color. Packet, 5c.; ounce, 10c.; >4 pound, 30c.; pound, 55c. IMPROVED LONG DIXIE—This popular melon has the rich and lu
. 1900 catalogue of Plant Seed Company : reliable vegetable, farm, and flower seeds. Nursery stock Missouri Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs. FLORIDA FAVORITE—This variety is very early and one of the finest table melons extant; oblong in shape, and growing to a very large size; rind dark with light green stripes, flesh light crimson, very crisp and deliciously sweet; seed rather small and of a light creamy-whit* color. Packet, 5c.; ounce, 10c.; >4 pound, 30c.; pound, 55c. IMPROVED LONG DIXIE—This popular melon has the rich and luscious quality of the Mountain Sweet, and equals the Kg lb Gem as a shipper; is earlier, more productive and longer in shape. It is of a very fine appearance, dark green and beautifully striped, extremely hardy, and its eating quality is unexcelled. Flesh bright scarlet, very sweet. Packet, 5c.; ounce, 10c.; }^ pound, 30c.; pound, 55c. JUMBO—In shape this melon is almost rouDd. The skin is green, with faint stripes of lighter green. They grow to a fine large size, with a very tough rind, making it a valuable shipping variety. Flesh red aiid very sweet. Packet, 6c.; (.unce,10c.; >4 pound, 30c.: pound, KOLB GEM—This variety is more largely grown by Southern shippers than any other. The rind though quite thin, is very tough, standing handling and shipment long distances without breakage. The flesh is bright red and of excellent flavor. All who have grown it agree in pronounc- ing it one of the Lirgsst, }7iost productive, best keeping and shipping- melons. Packet, 5c.; ounce, 10c.; }i pound, 30c.; pound, 55c. MOUNTAIN SWEET—An oval-long variety; flesh scarlet and quite solid; very sweet and delicious. Packet, 5c.; ounce, 10c.; }i pound, 30c.: pound, 55c. LIGHT ICING RIND—Oblong in shape. Skin light green, rind very thin. One of the best, always good flavor. Packet, 5c.; ounce, 10c.; pound, 30c.; pound, BLUE GEM—A true blue Kolb Gem. It possesses the shi
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