For planting in the Northern States we recommend Harris' Earliest, Phinney's Early and Fordhook Early Watermelons 69 



* Maiile's Improved Kleckley Sweet Watermelon 



A New and Improved Type, a Reliable Long Distance Shipper 



This Improved Strain of Kleckley Sweet watermelon is now so thoroughly fixed as to perfect a new type of this favorite 

 sort. Producing uniformly large melons in 85 days, retaining all of the fine qualities as a table sort, with an important added 

 feature of having much harder rind, which assures its satisfactory carrying quality. While the old type will not stand 

 even short distance shipping in carloads. The seeds are all creamy white. Flesh, scarlet, very firm, of superb flavor and 

 crisp texture. Color of rind remains the same dark bluish green and grows to a much larger size than the old type. A desir- 

 able home garden, market or shipping sort. Our seed stock is limited, so advise ordering early. 



Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 20 cents; quarter pound, 60 cents; pound, $2.00; 5 pounds, $8.75, postpaid.^ 



397 Harris' Earliest Watermelon 



Sweetest Early Melon. Largest E^rly Melon. Best Early Melon for the Home Garden. 



The general shape and appearance of the 

 Harris are shown in the illustration. The skin 

 is mottled with green and white. The flesh is 

 red, sweet, juicy and crisp. The seeds are 

 black. The weight varies all the way from 

 12 to 40 pounds, the average being 15 to 20 

 pounds. They average about 20 inches long 

 and 12 inches thick, which is exceptionally 

 large for so early a variety, maturing in 65 

 days. Its table quality is first class. 



Owing to its extreme earliness, and adapt- 

 ability to growing in heavy soils, it is exten- 

 tively planted in the Northern States, where 

 it is the undisputed favorite. We have known 

 this melon to mature in latitudes as far north 

 as Canada, and in places where watermelons 

 never grew before. 



The Harris is the earliest watermelon on the 

 market; the sweetest early melon, the largest 

 early melon and the best early melon for the 

 home garden. These are sweeping statements, 

 but they are true. Moreover, the Harris will 



out-yield any other early melon. 397 harris- earliest watermelon. 



Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 15 cents; quarter pound, 45 cents; pound. $1.50; 5 pounds, $6.25, postpaid. 



