. Dreer's garden calendar : 1897. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. Emerald thick and lus- cious, and ripens clear to the rind ; melons of medi- um size, beauti- iully netted. Pkt. 5 cts.; oz. 15 A cts.; i lb. 40 cts. 11 Columbus. This very attractive new variety com- bines in a high degree sweetness and fine keeping and cropping qualities. Its beautiful buff skin is covered with a very thin whitish netting, flesh green, very solid and thick. Pkt, 5 cts.; oz. 15 cts.;
. Dreer's garden calendar : 1897. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. Emerald thick and lus- cious, and ripens clear to the rind ; melons of medi- um size, beauti- iully netted. Pkt. 5 cts.; oz. 15 A cts.; i lb. 40 cts. 11 Columbus. This very attractive new variety com- bines in a high degree sweetness and fine keeping and cropping qualities. Its beautiful buff skin is covered with a very thin whitish netting, flesh green, very solid and thick. Pkt, 5 cts.; oz. 15 cts.; i lb. 40 cts. Miller Cream, or Osage. A remarkably good variety, of large size and delicious flavor; a favorite among truckers. The fruits are large and round, with light green, netted skin, and thick, sweet, salmon-colored flesh. Montreal Market. Largest of the nutmeg varieties; uniform in shape ; netted flesh green ; quality remarkably good. Baltimore. An oval, green-fleshed melon, of good size, flesh thick and of delicious flavor. Cosmopolitan. This brand new green-fleshed Musk Melon is one of the most distinct and handsome melons ever introduced, combining as it does the firm flesh of the French Cantaloupe and the delicious flavor of the American Musk Melon; fruit of medium size, spherical, with no ribs, and densely covered with grav netting. Pkt. 5 cts.; oz. 15 cts.; J lb. 40 cts. Tip-Top. Quite distinct in appearance, this new melon is of the finest quality. Flesh yellow, sweet, juicy and firm, but not hard fleshed. Fruit ribbed and beautifully netted, a very productive and excellent variety. Pkt. 10 cts.; oz. 15 cts.; J lb. 40 cts. We can also supply the following varieties: Bay View, Banquet, Del- monico, Hango or Vegetable Orange, Skillman's Netted, Surprise. Per pkt. 5 cts.; oz. 10 cts.; i lb. 25 cts. Ready March 1st, 25 cts. * Early Hackensack Melon. " Dreer's Open Air Vegetables " is a sure guide to growing Melons in any soils or localities We pay postage
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