H. W. BUCKBEE, BOCKFOBB, ILLINOIS. 



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 ^BETTE/^MELON p 



A packet of Watermelon 

 Seeds, according to size of 

 seeds, contains from 50 to 

 150 seeds. 



BE,ST! 



FOR EATING 

 FOR GROWING 

 FOR SHIPPING 



BEST! 



FOR EVERY REASON 



THE SWEETEST FLA= 

 VORED MELON IN THE 

 WORLD 



In hundreds of markets every season it finds ready sale 

 at good pri- es when all other sorts go begging for buyers. 



THIS GRANDEST OF ALL VARIETIES 



has been extensively grown the past few seasons in 

 almost every melon growing locality of the world, and in 

 not one single instance has it failed to meet the expecta- 

 tions of the planter. The reports received from every 

 section that all are delighted with it prove that in the 

 hands of my customers 



BUCKBEE'S MONTE CRISTO 



Has given the same surpassing results as my careful 

 trials at Rockford Seed Farms. 



GROW IT AND IT WILL 

 CONVINCE YOU 



TE CRISTO 



Mr. J. L. McAllister, Yazoo City, 

 Miss., writes: "Bttckbec's Monte Cristo 

 Water Melon is the king of all melons. 

 1 liave always had fine success with all 

 the seeds I have bought of you. My 

 Carrots, Radishes, Turhips, Sweet 

 Corn, Cucumbers, Onions, in fact every- 

 thing arc the finest ever grown here." 



The Best Water Melon 

 Ever Introduced 



So have said thousands of my customers 

 who planted Monte Cristo for the past five 

 years. Never before in the history of the 

 seed trade has so much seed of a new Water 

 Melon been sold in one year as of Monte Cristo, 

 and, what is more, every customer is pleased, 

 fully substantiating my claims for itj being 

 the largest early Water Melon to mature, 

 ripening in the remarkably short period of 

 65 to 80 days, and weighing, under ordinary 

 cultivation, 60 pounds. The greatest yielder. 

 The sweetest, juiciest, crispest and most solid 

 melon ever produced, never having a hollow 

 or pithy center when ripe. The easiest to 

 sell on the market, for when once tried people 

 will have no other. Many of my customers 

 have written me the past year that they have 

 cleared $100 or more per acre by growing 

 Buckbee's Monte Cristo Melons. Under 

 average cultivation you can do as well or 

 better. Will you not try it this year? It is 

 a grand, good shipper; has a firm, solid rind, 

 not too thick, yet will stand the most severe 

 handling. The outside skin is of a rich, dark 

 green color, shaded with faint stripes of a 

 somewhat, lightercolor. Certainly the finest ap- 

 pearing Melon ever grown for market , shipping 

 or table purposes. Mr, Dodge, the veteran 

 melon grower, says: "Buckbee s Monte 

 Cristo is the best Melon I ever raised." What 

 more can you ask when I say, "Not half of 

 its good qualities have been told." I only 

 wish that the space in this book would permit 

 of including the thousands of expressions re- 

 ceived from my customers all over the globe. 

 While my supply of seed is larger than ever 

 before, I already have large advance orders 

 from my customers, who have planted Monte 

 Cristo in past seasons, and I would advise 

 all who care to plant this "King of all 

 Melons" in 1906 to place their orders as 

 early as possible. Please remember that 

 I control the entire product of this vari- 

 ety, so send to Buckbee for choicest stock 

 seed of MONTE CRISTO MELON. The 

 price is within the reach of all. 



Price of choicest stock seed of my own 

 growing: Pkt. 10c; oz. 15c; 2 oz. 26c; 

 i lb. 35c; i lb. 60c; lb. $1.00; 5 lbs. $4.00, 

 prepaid. 



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THE COLORED PLATES IN THIS GUIDE ARE ALL FROM PAINTINGS FROM NATURE 



