STOKES 



GROWINC SJNCE 1S79 



SEEDS 



SUPER-STANDARD STRAINS 



The Bender Melon 



(HAND-CUT SEED) 



If you are a Melon-grower, do not fail to read this description 



Days to maturity, 90. We feel that we have underestimated the value of 

 the Bender Melon, for it is now looked upon as one of the most important 

 types in the eastern markets. It may be defined as a distinctly individual 

 Melon in contrast to the basket type, such as Sugar Sweet. Bender is a highly 

 flavored, round melon averaging 10 inches or more in diameter. The flesh is 

 deep orange and of delicious, melting texture when fully ripe. Bender is 

 usually started under glass, in pots or in bands, and transplanted. Seed planted 

 about May 25 will mature Melons about August 20. Mr. Herman Ude, a 

 good customer of ours from SufField, Conn., wrote us on September 20, 1926: 

 "By express I send you two Bender Melons that will convince you of their 

 quality. We have thousands of these which we send to Henry Kelly & Sons, 

 413 West 14th Street, New York City, where we get $1 to $1.50 per Melon by 

 the truck-load, as you can easily verify. They retail them for 28 cents per 

 pound. Some crop, thanks to your wonderful seed!" In addition to these 

 Melons, Mr. Ude sent us some remarkable photographs, one of which is 

 reproduced here, showing his son holding up a 14-pound specimen which 

 apparently was not of unusual size. Our present seed has all been hand-cut 

 from selected Melons. Our strain was characterized by an old Melon seed- 

 grower as an unusually pure one. Price, delivered: Pkt. 25 cts. ; oz. 50 cts. ; 

 i/ 4 lb. $1.50; lb. $5; 5 lbs. or more, $4.75 per lb. 



Sugar Sweet or Knight (hand-cut seed) 



Days to maturity, 95. When properly grown, this is one of the most satis- 

 factory of the green-fleshed Melons now known. Sugar Sweet is about 7 inches ^ ounds of Bender 

 in diameter, well netted, and very productive. It is a familiar Melon on the 



Philadelphia and Baltimore markets. Our strain can be depended upon for its purity of type, all Melons 



having been hand -selected and 

 HAND-CUT SEED: hand-cut. 

 All of our muskmelon seed delivered: p kL 1Q 



cts.; oz. 25 cts.; y 4 Ib. 

 65 cts.; lb. $2; 5 



Sugar Sweet , xlbs. or more, $1.75 



or Knight P er lb - 



this year is from hand-cut se 

 lected melons. This assures 

 great purity of type. 



