These beautiful melons with luscious deep-orange golden flesh are sweet, juicy, and fragrant. Rinds are thin, heavily netted and medium ribbed. Vigorous, prolific plants bear nearly round, medium-sized, two to three pound fruits that are ready to pick 90 days from sowing. An heirloom introduced around 1900 and once the most popular commercial cantaloupe in the Midwest.

• Days to maturity: 90 days
• Fruit weight: 2-3 pounds
• Sun: full sun
• Spread: 3-6 feet
• Height: 15-18 inches
• Sow method: direct sow
• Planting time: summer
• Sow time: after last frost
• Thin: 36 inches
• Lifecycle: annual