. Childs rare flowers, vegetables, and fruits. Fruit Varieties United States Catalogs; Flowers Varieties United States Catalogs; Vegetables Varieties United States Catalogs; John Lewis Childs (Firm); Fruit; Flowers; Vegetables. on WUSK WELSH* This fine fruit is much more delirious when eaten fresh from the Tines tTuun when allowed to stand for days in the heat of the market. Grow them like Cucumbers. Childs' Great Combination. An appropriate name for this fine melon that combines large size, extra qual- ity rich perfume, late ripening, and long keeping. Each melon is very large, often from 20'


. Childs rare flowers, vegetables, and fruits. Fruit Varieties United States Catalogs; Flowers Varieties United States Catalogs; Vegetables Varieties United States Catalogs; John Lewis Childs (Firm); Fruit; Flowers; Vegetables. on WUSK WELSH* This fine fruit is much more delirious when eaten fresh from the Tines tTuun when allowed to stand for days in the heat of the market. Grow them like Cucumbers. Childs' Great Combination. An appropriate name for this fine melon that combines large size, extra qual- ity rich perfume, late ripening, and long keeping. Each melon is very large, often from 20'to 30 pounds S»7a weight, twice the size of others, thick-meated, very mB luscious and rich. If caref ully picked and put away in a cool, dry plaoe, will keep a month or longer. Average size twice as large as any other. Pkt., 10c; oz., 20c; lb., $ MONTREAL, GREEN NUTMEG. Montreal Cream Nutmeg. While not as large of the Great Combination, this is an uncommonly large melon and a great cropper. Flesh green, very firm and delicious, and unlike rricst varieties, does not lose flavor during wet or cloudy weather. A very popular sort with Northern market gardeners. Pkt., DC; oz., 153.; lb., £1X0. t is quite popular. Melons very ttom end, and two or three feet :y fragrant variety, and if not picked until ripe, of very good quality and flavor. Its avor, as well as its shape, remind one of a Pkt., 10c; oz., 20c. Emerald Gem. In quality this leads all, and every home *ard~n* include it. Medium sized, round with fafmon fl"h so rich, sweet and juicy that it needs to be eatâ¢n with a spoon. oth r Muskmelon can compare wraitin eating qualities, and it is the sort of all others for the horn- garden. It is rather soft and perishable for marketing, except near honv. Whore known in our vanâ¢'s and cities, the Emerald Gom easily brings double the price of any other sort, and for gardeners who deliver the melons to customers, or to the 'market direct this is the most profit


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