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H. G. Hastings & Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
Winner of First Prize at the Rocky ford 
Colorado Fair Both in 1910 and 1911 
Cantaloupes are worlted finer in the Rockyford, Colorado, section than 
in any other place in the world and it is no smail honor to have won first 
prize over all the famous growers of that section but that’s esactiy what 
we did in both 1910 and 1911, crates of Eden Cem Rockyford cantaloupes 
from our seed fields walking away with the Blue Ribbon at the Rockyford 
fair two years in suc.ces.sion. This is simply in line with all our seed grow¬ 
ing efforts; to grow the be.=t that's possible, regardless of co.st. 
This Eden Cem type was selected by our Mr. HastiniiK, after a per- 
,sonal inspection of tlic fields of the best growers in the Rockyford section, 
several years ago, as being the best type of the Roc.kyford in existence. 
The winning of finst prize on cantaloupes at the great Rockyford fair two 
years in su.-cession shows the correctness of his judgment as to variety 
and the high quality of oiir seed growing work. 
We furnish our Ro'-kvford grower new stock seed to plant every year. 
Before the melons rqien a representative of this house goes to Rockyford, 
sees the melons gathereil and cut; the seed saved, cleaned and dried, 
sacked and put on the cars for Atlanta. We have a man on the job from 
start to finish. That's why we know exactly what we have in our Eden 
Rem Cantaloupe. It is unequalled by any other cantaloupe in the 
country and it's good South and North, East and West. It's a money¬ 
maker for any melon grower. Vines stay green longer than others; 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. 
Hundreds of Southern cantaloupe shipjiers know Hastings’ Eden 
Gem, but it was almost by accident that a firm of truck growers in New 
York who make a specialty of growing specially fancy cantaloupes got 
some of our seed last year. F. & H. P. Langilon, of Constable, New York, 
wrote us as follows; “After trying out your Eden Gem Cantaloupe we feel 
so good about them that we tliink you ought to know it. The en losed 
sheet we areputtingin each basket shippedtells some of their good points, 
but does not do them justice after all. We are getting 82.,lO per40-pounil 
basket. It was a lucky day when we saw your advertisement." Their 
circular says. “This melon is as near perfect as a melon can be. The 
heaviest netted, thickest nieated. stralle.st seed cavity we have ever seen 
For sweetness and flavor they are unexcelled." 
UqpfSnfio* Crlnn Cnm Pnnfolmmn Perfection of the Rockyford strains and the only sure money-maker for the grower who plants for 
nflnilllllN rilHIl IlHMI shipment or market. This strain was selected as the I'est by our Mr. Hastings who made ta per- 
liuuilliyu LiUUll UUIH uuiliuiuupu goQal inspection of the Rockyford section and growing crops three years ago and the face that 
melons from our seed crop take first prizes overall others at the great Rockyford fair is evidence that hemade no mistake. Packet, lO onts; 
ounce, 120 cents; 1.1 pound, OO cents; pound, S2.00; postpaid. lO-ponnd lets or over, not prepaid, $1.75 per pound. 
