Vegetable and flower seeds catalogue : free for all . ; averages from eight to fifteen pounds ; has beengrown to weigh thirty-five pounds. Mr. Philip Breitmeyer, President of the Society of American Flor-ists, writes: This melon is, without doubt, the best we have evereaten. My family will bear me out in this. Writes Whitfield &Young, grocers of Pontiac : Lewiss best muskmelon sells morereadily with us at 25 cts. each, than the best Osage Melons do at 10 A. C. Thompson of Rocky Ford, Colo., despite the fact that heis making a fortune selling the Rocky Ford Melons, says: Thereis a melon
Vegetable and flower seeds catalogue : free for all . ; averages from eight to fifteen pounds ; has beengrown to weigh thirty-five pounds. Mr. Philip Breitmeyer, President of the Society of American Flor-ists, writes: This melon is, without doubt, the best we have evereaten. My family will bear me out in this. Writes Whitfield &Young, grocers of Pontiac : Lewiss best muskmelon sells morereadily with us at 25 cts. each, than the best Osage Melons do at 10 A. C. Thompson of Rocky Ford, Colo., despite the fact that heis making a fortune selling the Rocky Ford Melons, says: Thereis a melon grown by a man named Lewis which is said to be the mostluscious and of the finest flavor of any found in the world. I had asmall one at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and paid one large shiningRocky Ford dollar for it. It was a stiff price, but knowledge ischeap at 100 cents. That Michigan melon made all of the fruit fromRocky Ford appear at a discount. Price, per pound, postpaid, $; per \sA pound, $; perounce, 60 cts.; per package, ) 5 Daupliine Early Pumpkin. Snowbound Watermelonm Of the Snowbound Mr. Corry, the great melon raiser, writes us : During the many years I have devoted to the growing of melons forthe seed trade, I have grown but few varieties that have impressed meso favorably as Snowbound for both shipping and home use. Thevines are very vigorous and heavy bearers of large gray, oblong melons,with rind tough enough for good shippers, while the flesh is tender,sweet, and of fine flavor and destitute of the hard spots that somemelons have that are characterized as shippers. In size it is from largeto very large. Price, per pound, postpaid, $; per Js4 pound, 75 cts.; perounce, 25 cts.; per package, )5 cts. Golden Sweet Cornm Several years ago a golden sweet corn was catalogued (we believe thename was Gold Coin) to which there were two very serious objec-tions : it was very late, and, besides, had a disagreeable field cornflavor. We now introduce to our
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