. Annual circular and retail catalogue of warranted vegetable and flower seeds. Cream-Fleshed, Sculptured-Seeded Melon. In size about medium, color much like Phinneys, but darkerand more regularly striped ; flesh very tender and melting,sweet and delicious. Melons quite thin shelled, but first-ratekeepers notwithstanding. The seed present a singular appear-ance, as though engraved with oriental characters. Price 10cents per Hardy Ridge, or Prescott, Melon-. Probably not one person in a hundred seeing the HardyBidge when growing would take it for a melon. Neverthe-less it is a melon,
. Annual circular and retail catalogue of warranted vegetable and flower seeds. Cream-Fleshed, Sculptured-Seeded Melon. In size about medium, color much like Phinneys, but darkerand more regularly striped ; flesh very tender and melting,sweet and delicious. Melons quite thin shelled, but first-ratekeepers notwithstanding. The seed present a singular appear-ance, as though engraved with oriental characters. Price 10cents per Hardy Ridge, or Prescott, Melon-. Probably not one person in a hundred seeing the HardyBidge when growing would take it for a melon. Neverthe-less it is a melon, and one of the very best quality, too. Avery popular variety in the markets of London and Paris, thewonder is it has not before this been introduced into the Unit-ed States. It is prolific, grows to a very large size, is ofsplendid quality,—being equal to the best cantaloupes, whileit is by far the thickest meated of all melons, being in fact verynearly solid and having but very few seed. Price, 25 cents perpackage. Rare, Novel, or Yery Desirable. Among the New, Rare or Desirable Vegetables, I would call particular attention to the following. figf While most of these new and rare vegetables will be found to be of universal value, others may vary in quality with the soil and a general rule we are not rendered capable of passing judgment on a new vegetable by the result of a singe trial. Oftentimes the most welear
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