. Annual circular and retail catalogue of warranted vegetable and flower seeds. Gardening Massachusetts Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Massachusetts Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Massachusetts Catalogs. Sill's Cream-Fleshed Sculptured Seeded. This Melon came to me as a new Watermelon from Japan. The seed have a sin- gular appearance as though engraved with oriental characters. I add a description hy a gentleman who raised them ou a large scale. Per pack- age, 15 cents. "In size it is about medium, color much like the Phinney's hut darker and more regularly stripe
. Annual circular and retail catalogue of warranted vegetable and flower seeds. Gardening Massachusetts Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Massachusetts Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Massachusetts Catalogs. Sill's Cream-Fleshed Sculptured Seeded. This Melon came to me as a new Watermelon from Japan. The seed have a sin- gular appearance as though engraved with oriental characters. I add a description hy a gentleman who raised them ou a large scale. Per pack- age, 15 cents. "In size it is about medium, color much like the Phinney's hut darker and more regularly striped, flesh very tender and melting, sweet and delicious. I think this the bs;t eating melon I ever tasted, and this saems to be the general opinion of all who have eaten of them. I took some to our Fair, where there were much larger and better looking ones than mine, but when the judges came around and tested their quality they unhesi- tatingly gave mine the first premium. The melons are quite tender and thin shelled, and will not bear rough handling, but they proved to be first rate keepers notwithstanding; I kept lots of them nearly two months after picking. The vines seem to le more productive than any other variety I have tiled. On the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original J. J. H. Gregory & Son; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection. Marblehead, Mass. : James J. H. Gregory
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