. Key to profit in the garden. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. Improved Acme or Baltimore. , 5 lbs. $ lbs. £ WATERMELON. German, Wasser-AFelone.—French, Melon-d! Eau,—Spanish, Sandia. i kills; 4 to 3 lbs. i?i hills for aft acre. MARKET KING. The Handsomest, Most Productive, Best Selling and Profitable Variety. SUPERIOR TO ALL OTHERS FOR - - -. The Largest Early Melon Ever Grown. Matures 83 Days from Planting. LONG DISTANCE SHIPPING gffoHLYBEH^ L/" eoriM llcV «
. Key to profit in the garden. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. Improved Acme or Baltimore. , 5 lbs. $ lbs. £ WATERMELON. German, Wasser-AFelone.—French, Melon-d! Eau,—Spanish, Sandia. i kills; 4 to 3 lbs. i?i hills for aft acre. MARKET KING. The Handsomest, Most Productive, Best Selling and Profitable Variety. SUPERIOR TO ALL OTHERS FOR - - -. The Largest Early Melon Ever Grown. Matures 83 Days from Planting. LONG DISTANCE SHIPPING gffoHLYBEH^ L/" eoriM llcV «"* Notwithstanding the fact that this melon will average forty-five pounds in weight, they will readily withstand packing seven layers deep, W without injury, in a car; whereas the Kolb Gem or any other variety cannot be packed more than five layers deep for long distance shipping, thus fully proving it to be superior to all others as a shipper. Its hardy vines are vigorous, healthy and productive, its fruit large and heavy (thirty to sixty pounds), resembles the Florida Favorite in shape and uniformity, but differing in color, being attractively and peculiarly mottled, rather than distinctly striped. The rind, although thin, is as firm as some of the winter squashes. Two average-sized men have stood, bearing their whole weight on our Market King, weighing thirty-five pounds, without cracking the rind or injuring the melon. The fruit keeps long in good condition and is not excelled in shipping qualities. Seeds dark; flesh deepest scarlet, without any tendency to stringiness, firm and solid, but melting, luscious and of richest flavor. We have had it thoroughly tested on different soils, in various climates and under unfavorable as well as favorable conditions, and all praise its good qualities. Everybody who can grow a melon should try this variety, and large growers need not hesitate to plant it largely. This is not only an early watermelon of fine quality, but it i
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