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The first to ripen (ten days earlier than any other kind). The best in quality. Oflarge size. The greatest producer. EVERY SEEDSMAN should catalogue this novelty for 1898. Get your

orders in at once, as we offer only a limited stock of this seed to the trade this season.

Wherever we have offered this new melon in market it has been taken in preference to all others.

<F THE KINSMAN QUEEN ~~“.

Is the result of a cross between the ‘“Emerald Gem” and an old variety of large size and excellent quality, followed by a careful selection for many years of finest early fruit for seed stock, It is first to ripen, being ten days earlier than the earliest musk melon we have ever tested. Is very large in size for an early melon. Will average three times as large as the ‘‘Emerald Gem.” Nearly round in shape. Color yellowish green outside, andis slight- ly ribbed and netted. Flesh ceep salmon color, and, like its parent the ‘Emerald Gem,” is rich, juicy and delicious, being in every way equal in quality to this old favorite. Is reasonably firm and stands shipping fairly well. It is an excessive producer—holds up well throughout the season.

The Kinsman Queen is bound to be very popular everywhere asit not only heads the list in quality but is also the greatest MONEY GETTER ever introduced.

We offer this seed in blank packets of %4 oz. each at $3.00 per 100 pack- ets; also a limited quantity of the seed in bulk at $1.00 per pound.

. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 21, 1897. | KEARNEY, NEB., Nov. 3, 1897. i Mr. FRANK BANNING, | Mr. FRANK BANNING, Kinsman, O., Kinsman, O.,

Your favor of the 18th inst. duly; Your new melon The Kinsman received. In reply would say we) Queen is all O. K. think quite well of The Kinsman F. M. GREEN SEED Co. Queen Musk Mellon. (The largest growers of vine seeds W. ATLEE BuRPEE & Co. /in the U.S.)

FRANK BANNING, | | Seedsman and Florist.

KINSMAN, OHIO