H. G. Hastings & Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
HASTINGS’ EDEN GEM CANTALOUPE 
PRIZE WINNER AT ROCKYFORD, COLORADO, FAIRS 
Rockyford, Colorado, is known as the home of the best quality of 
cantaloupes, the melons raised in that section having no superiors 
anywhere in the world. It is no small honor to have won first prize 
over all the famous growers of that section but that is exactly 
what we have done for two years in succession, crates of Eden Gem 
Ivockyford cantaloupes from our seed fields taking first prize at 
this big Rockyford fair. This is simply in line with all our seed 
growing efforts to grow the very best regardless of cost. This Eden 
Gem type of ours which has now become so famous was selected 
by our Mr. Hastings after a personal inspection of the fields of the 
best growers in the Rockyford section several years ago. He con- 
sidered it the finest Rockyford type in existence and our having 
won the first prize on this item at the Rockyford fair two years in 
succession shows the correctness of his judgment as to the variety 
and the high quality of our seed growing work. We furnish our' 
seed growers new stock seed every year, this stock seed being most 
carefully bred and grown and before the melons ripen a representa- 
tive of this house goes to Rockyford, sees the melons gathered and 
cut, the seed saved, cleaned, dried, sacked and put on the -cars for 
Atlanta, ^.■e have a man on the job from start to finish and take 
no one else’s word as to quality. That is why we know exactly 
what we have in our Eden Gem. It is unequalled by any other 
cantaloupe in the country and it is a good melon J^orth, South, East 
and West. This is a money maker for any melon grower. Vines 
stay green longer than any other and it’s remarkably free from 
rust and has the finest and most perfect netting we have ever seen. 
“Slick” melons don’t grow in our Eden Gem fields. Hundreds of 
Southern cantaloupe shippers know the quality of our Eden Gem 
seed but it was almost by accident that a firm of truck growers in 
New York State who make a specialty of growing extra fancy 
cantaloupes got hold of some of our seed. This firm is in the ex- 
treme northern part of New York State and wrote us as follows: 
“After trying out your Eden Gem cantaloupe we feel so good about 
them that we think you ought to know it. The enclosed sheet we 
are putting in each basket shipped tells some of their good points 
but does not do them justice after all. We are getting $2.50 per 40- 
pound basket. It was a lucky day when we saw your advertisement.” 
Their circular says : “This melon is as nearly perfect as a melon can 
be; the heaviest netted, thickest meated ; smallest seed cavity we 
have ever seen; for sweetness and flavor they are unexcelled. 
|J9e'|'in9'c’ Erlon The illustration above shows the average size and perfect netting of our Eden 
will w<lllfcalUU|Jc; Gem Cantaloupe, the real true money making variety for the shipper and market 
gardener as well as the most satisfactory of all for home use. It gives perfect satisfaction to all v no grow it. Its' dense netting helps 
greatly in resistance to insect attacks. You will make no mistake planting Eden Gem in the South. Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 16 cents; 
pound, 50 cents; pound, $1.75; postpaid. 10-pound lots or over, not prepaid, $1.50 per pound. . 
