. Steckler's seeds : 1905 . Icing. This is an earlyvariety, round, with thin, dark skin,yet very solid and of superior well adapted for shipping pur-poses. Alabama Sweet. The best Melongrown for shipping. Oblong, very large,dark green, feintly striped, very sweet,entirely stringless; very prolific; we can-not recommend this JMelon too highl^^.Fancy selected Southern grown seed. Black Diamond. We have triedvery hard the past season to popularizethis fine large Melon, but our customers?do not take toit as they should. D»not be partial and cling too long to ol<Jfavorites. We admit
. Steckler's seeds : 1905 . Icing. This is an earlyvariety, round, with thin, dark skin,yet very solid and of superior well adapted for shipping pur-poses. Alabama Sweet. The best Melongrown for shipping. Oblong, very large,dark green, feintly striped, very sweet,entirely stringless; very prolific; we can-not recommend this JMelon too highl^^.Fancy selected Southern grown seed. Black Diamond. We have triedvery hard the past season to popularizethis fine large Melon, but our customers?do not take toit as they should. D»not be partial and cling too long to ol<Jfavorites. We admit that but half theso-called novelties are really novelor an improvement on others, but whenwe know that we have an improvedvariety, we do not hesitate to recom-mend it. Put at least a portion ofyour JNIelon patch in Black Diamondand you will plant more of it the nextseason. It is nearly round, solid, rind. Why not raise your own Wlushrooms, easily grown, cost of spawn 60c. per lb. ^0 J. STECKLEE SEED CO., LTD., ALMAKAC AXD. Pride of Geon black-green in color; good shipper, and of finequality. Yields larger than any other varietyof late introduction. Kleckleys Sweet. This is one of thebest flavored Melons in cultivation, and of ashape and color that is extremely rind is very dark green, very thin,ilesh deep scarlet, fine and of delicious qual-ity. For the home market and familygarden it is decidedly one of the best. Sweet Heart. A new shipping Melon of large size and fine quality. The vinesare very vigorous and productive, bearingthe fruit early. Melons uniform in size,oval-shaped and very heavy. The rind islight green, thin, but firm, flesh brightcrimson, sweet and tender, this melon is par-ticularly fine for distant shipping, being ofsuch fine appearance that the} sell readilyand they remain in fit condition to use longerthan any other sort.
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