. Bliss and Sons' illustrated hand-book for the farm and garden for 1881 : containing a list of the best known and most poplular varieties of garden, field & flower seeds, selected from our large assortment of nearly three thousand varieties with brief directions for their culture. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. CUBAX QI EE> WATER31EL,ON. Tills iiiagiiifLcent iie\v melon is certainly tlie largest and finest varietj- ever t
. Bliss and Sons' illustrated hand-book for the farm and garden for 1881 : containing a list of the best known and most poplular varieties of garden, field & flower seeds, selected from our large assortment of nearly three thousand varieties with brief directions for their culture. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. CUBAX QI EE> WATER31EL,ON. Tills iiiagiiifLcent iie\v melon is certainly tlie largest and finest varietj- ever tntrodnced. and was the admiration of all dur- ing the past season. The skin is beautitiilly strip- ed, dark and light green, of the latter there hemg two shades agi-eeably di- versified. The vines are very strong, healtliy and A-igorous ingi owth. The tlesli is hright red, le- markably solid, pecul- iarly luscious, crisp and s sugary, and in delicious flavor is unsmiiassed. It is an excellent keeper, and although the lind is nnusually thin, bemg scai cely more than half an incli thick on a melon of enormous size, ^vill bear to distant markets ^vell. Their great size handsome thin rtud, red flesh, aud delicious taste are so captivating that they cannot fall to bring Avherever put on sale. Cuban Queen Watermelon. appearance, extra prices Sold only in sealed packets, with the above engraving printed on each. Price—25 cents per packet of 15 seeds; compete for. Day's Early Sunrise Pea. 5 packets for Everj- purchaser is entitled to Fifty Dollars in Pi-eniiimis, to be awarded as follows :—§ to the grower of the largest Cuban Queen watermelon: § to the grower of the second ; and to the grower of the third largest. All reports, which must be signed by three witnesses and sworn to before a Justice, to be sent us by October loth, 1881, and on November 1st the cash will be forwarded to those entitled to it. ^Ve reserve the right of ordering t
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