. 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. 41 MUSK MELON. (Zucker Helone.) Cultivate about as recommended for cucumbers, except that the hills should be six feet apart, but avoid planting near those plants, as they will mix with and injure the quality of the melons. This and heavy rains at the time of ripening will destroy the flavor of the finest stock. Eich earth for the young plants is far better than
. 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. 41 MUSK MELON. (Zucker Helone.) Cultivate about as recommended for cucumbers, except that the hills should be six feet apart, but avoid planting near those plants, as they will mix with and injure the quality of the melons. This and heavy rains at the time of ripening will destroy the flavor of the finest stock. Eich earth for the young plants is far better than manure, but if the latter must be used see that it is well rotted. If the plants grow very rank more and finer fruit will be secured by pinching off the ends of the shoots when about three feet long. B^One ounce will plant about eighty hills. All varieties of Musk Melon, exceptwhere marked otherwise, are 5c per pkt., loc per oz., 25c per 1^ lb., and 750 per lb. If by mall add 8c per lb. for postage. ' The Banquet. This superb melon represents years of careful selection and improvement. The raiser regards it as his greatest production, and likely to supersede all other red fleshed varieties. The cut -shown is a reproduction of a photograph. It is a â medium sized melon, very flat at both ends and more beautifully netted than any known variety. In quality it has no equal. The flesh is uniformly deep and of that granulated character that always indi- cates a good melon. Color dark rich salmon. Pkt. 5c, oz. 15c, 14 lb. JOc. (See fig. 10, back cover.) y^xtra. Early Hackensack. This valuable new â¢variety is ready for market fully ten days ahead of ithe well known Hackensack, its progenitor, which it much resembles in shape and quality. The melons eare of good size, weighing five to ten pounds each. âHackensack, or Turk's Cap. Grown more extensively ithan a,ny other single variety. Form round and flattened at the ends, and attains a very large size, of excellent qualitj' and ver
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