. Descriptive catalogue and price list : flower, field and garden seeds. Nutmeg. Musk Melons. Hackensack. Ex. Ey. Musk Melon. Rocky Ford Cantaloupe. sandy soil. In clayey or heavy soils the quality ell, with the soil in the hill, a shovelful of thor- en seeds in a hill, covering about one-half inch ach way, and, when the plants commence to run. e flowers commence to appear, pinch off the ends d air-slacked lime are very good to sift over the tacks of insects. Do not sow the seeds till the or early use a few plants may be started in pot^, tting warm. One ounce plants about 60 hills. CU
. Descriptive catalogue and price list : flower, field and garden seeds. Nutmeg. Musk Melons. Hackensack. Ex. Ey. Musk Melon. Rocky Ford Cantaloupe. sandy soil. In clayey or heavy soils the quality ell, with the soil in the hill, a shovelful of thor- en seeds in a hill, covering about one-half inch ach way, and, when the plants commence to run. e flowers commence to appear, pinch off the ends d air-slacked lime are very good to sift over the tacks of insects. Do not sow the seeds till the or early use a few plants may be started in pot^, tting warm. One ounce plants about 60 hills. CULTURE—Musk Melons do best in a warm, will be poor. Previous to planting incorporate w oughly rotten manure and drop from ten to fifte deep. The hills must be four to six feet apart e thin out to three plants to a hill. As soon as th of the vines to induce early fruiting. Ashes an young plants when the dew is on, to prevent at ground is warm and danger of frost is over. F in a hotbed, and planted out when nights are ge Two to three pounds to an acre. THE ROCKY FORD MUSK MELON is a new and most valuable introduction, and has attained in an incredible short time a national reputation. It is of the Netted Gem type, oval in shape, av- eraging from four and one-half to five inches in length, of a delicious flavor, very fine and smooth grained flesh of a light green color throughout when ripe. Deriving its name from the district in which it has been for the past several years so extensively grown, Rocky Ford, Colorado, and from which point these melons are shipped in their season by the car load to nearly every station in the United States, till the name Rocky Ford has become a synonym for excellence in cantaloupes. The seed we offer is our own growing at Rocky Ford, Colorado, and can be relied on for both pur- ity and vitality. The accompanying cut, made from a photograph of melons grown by us, will show the true type of the genuine Rocky Ford Cantaloupe. Be sure and include it in
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