. Annual catalogue of Price & Reed, sucessors to Price & Knickerbocker, importers, growers and dealers in fine flower, vegetable and field seeds : also dealers in horticultural and agricultural implements. Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Commercial catalogs New York (State) Albany. Price Sz: Reed, Albany, N. FLAG LEEK. MUSEMELON. Plant in hills 6 feet apart eaeh way; a dozen seeds m each hill. Thin out to two or three plants when out of danger of the bugs. Manure well w ith old, rotten compost. A


. Annual catalogue of Price & Reed, sucessors to Price & Knickerbocker, importers, growers and dealers in fine flower, vegetable and field seeds : also dealers in horticultural and agricultural implements. Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Commercial catalogs New York (State) Albany. Price Sz: Reed, Albany, N. FLAG LEEK. MUSEMELON. Plant in hills 6 feet apart eaeh way; a dozen seeds m each hill. Thin out to two or three plants when out of danger of the bugs. Manure well w ith old, rotten compost. A light, dry, sandy soil is the best. Use plenty of tobacco, soot or wood ashes to keep off the bugs. They are very apt to hybridize; the different kinds should be kept far apart. Packet of eacli variety, 5 cents. PRICE AND KNICKERBOCKER'S STJK- ProzPrlb PRISE. {Head-quarters Seed.) Has a thin, cream- colored skin, thickly netted; flesh is of a deep salmon color, very thick and of exquisite flavor. It is a good bearer and keeper, round in shape, resembling the Nutmeg, early; very popular and tindoubtedly thebest melon zncultivaiiony $0 15 $1 00 P. & R. GRAND VIEW. (Head-quarters S^ed.) A va- riety of great merit. Largely used in the great melon-grow- ing districts about Albanj'. It is of fine flavor, grows to a good size, resembling the nutmeg, thick fleshed, early; good shipping quahties 15 1 CO GOIiDEN NETTED GEM. Of medium size and uni- form shape. The flesh is thick, light green and of very tine flavor. Skin green ribbed and thickly netted. Very early in ripening, a heavy cropper and solid, keeping well five to seven days after picking -- --. 15 85 Delmoiilco is an oval melon of large size and deeply netted. Flesh an orange pink color. Very thick and of fine flavor 15 85 PRINCESS. Nearly round with heavily netted dark green skin, iiesh salmon-colored, very tnick, early, of good size—sweet and fine flavor 15 85 BANQUET. Of medium size, flat at both ends, very netted. Thi


Size: 1133px × 2206px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: ., bookauthorhenryggi, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookyear1894