Book excerpt: Excerpt from Burgess' Seed and Nursery Book for 1929 Extra haply hacken'sack. The best early green fleshed muskmelon and one of the hardiest and most prolific. Ripe fruits in 65 days - fully 10 days ahead of the well known old Hackensack. Fruits round. flattened at the ends. Irregularly ribbed and heavily netted. Flesh green, thick. Of excellent quality and flavor. Melons are of good size weighing from 5 to 10 pounds each. Pkt., Sc; oz l5o; 3; lb., 40c; lb postpaid. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.