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Title: Seed annual, 1899
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: D.M. Ferry & Co Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Seed industry and trade Flowers Vegetables Nursery stock Gardening
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : D.M. Ferry & Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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flesh is deep salmon color ami very thick, therebeing but a slight cavity in the center of even thelargest fruit. A favorite variety for the market.S\e have taken a great deal of pains to develop thethick, deep, rich colored and fine flavored flesh ofthis sort, and a careful comparison on our trialgrounds proves it to be unequaled even by Specialselected seed offered at very high prices. Pkt. 5c: Oz. 10c: 2 Oz. 15c: H Lb. 20c: Lb. 60c McCOTTERS PRIDE This variety is the result of long continued skill-ful breeding and selection with the purpose of se-curing a very large melon of spherical shape, with fleshof fine grain and nigh quality. The effort has been mostsuccessful, and we send out this variety with confi-dence that It will Please all who Plant it.The Fruit is Very Large, nearly round, evenly and moderately ribbed, dark greenin color, partially covered with gray netting. The Orange-Red Flesh is Very Thick, Sweetand of Fine Flavor.Pkt. 10c: Oz. 15c: 2 Oz. 25c; ^ Lb. 40c: Lb. $1.25
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McCoTTFRS Pride Musk Melon. EMERALD GEM Fruit small to medium sized, globular,or slightly flattened at the ends, onlyslightly netted and ribbed. Skin deep green while young,becoming tinged with yellow as the fruit matures: flesh deepsalmon-yellow, thick, ripening close to the rind, and exceed-ingly high flavored. This variety has steadily grown in pop-ular favor, and in many large markets leads all other kinds.Pkt. 5c: Oz. 10c; 2 Oz. 15c; ^4 Lb. 20c; Lb. 60c ^IIDPDI^F This old variety is still highly esteemed byoUNI moL many. Vines hardy and productive; fruitoval, not deeply ribbed, covered with slight patches of netting;skin yellowish-white: flesh deep salmon color. Pkt.5c: Oz.lOc: 2 Oz.l5c: h, Lb.20c: Lb.55cI HMfi VFI I ni4/ .^-large variety: long, oval, deeply ribbed:LVIlU I LLLUM rtei^h thick, light salmon colored, and of apeculiar musky flavor. This variety is used in its green state formangoes. Pkt. 5c: Oz. 10c: 2 Oz. 15c: \ \.h. 20c: Lb. 65c ..WATER MEUONS.. CULTURE—In Water

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