Title: Griswold's catalogue of vegetable, flower and field seeds, 1902
Identifier: CAT31285617 (find matches)
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Griswold Seed Co; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Nebraska Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: Lincoln, Neb. : Griswold Seed 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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GIUSWOLD SEED CO., Chicago Market. (Green Flesh). One of the sweetest of melons, large, productive, decidedly ribbed and netted, with very thick, green tiesh. /flackensack, or Turk's Cap. IPGreen Flesh). A large, round, melon, flattened at the ends, and well ribbed. The skin is green and deeply netted. The flesh green and of delicious flavor. The vine is a strong grower, and is very productive. I Surprise. (Salmon Flesh). Vines tiardy and productive, fruit oval, not very 'deeply ribbed, and covered with slight patches of netting. Skin cream- colored, flesh deep salmon. Banana. (Yellow Flesh). This Am-ions melon attains a length of 18 to 39 i n ches and a diameter of 2 to 4 i nches. The flesh is deep, and exquisite flavor. It looks and smells like a banana. j/Osage, or Miller's Cream. (Sal- omon Flesh). Fruit medium size, oval netted and slightly ribbed. Skin deep green while young, becoming tinged with yellow as the fruit matures; flesh deep salmon yellow, quite thick, and of most excellent flavor. (/Long Yellow Cantaloupe. (Yel- low Flesh.) An oblong melon with yeUow skin and flesh. )/Kound Yellow Cantaloupe. *tYELLOW Flesh.) Similar to the above, except that it is round instead of long. KILL BUGS : WITH SLUG SHOT WATER MELON. Wasser-Melon. One ounce seed to 25 hills, l-J to 4 lbs. per acre. Culture.—There is no material dif- ference in the cultivation of this and the muskmelon. Deep plowing is most essential with either.
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Pliinney's Early. ( White Seed. ) An early sort, of medium size, oblong in shape, and very uniform. Flesh red and remarkably sweet. It is vigorous in growth, and probably the earliest melon in cultivation. W^Mountain Sweet. (Dark Seed.) One of the oldest and best of the early melons. In shape For prices see page 46. oblong, with a deep green skin and red flesh; solid and of good size, considering its earliness. ^Ice Cream or Peerless. (White Seed.) This is one of the best of the white seeded sorts; ripening a few days later than the IMiinney's Early. Fruit oblong, with deep, green skin slightly mottled; flesh bright scarlet, crisp, and fine grained. 31

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