D. H. Gilbert, Monticello, Florida 
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Gilbert’s Kleckley Sweet 
Y EARS ago I set out to perfect this favorite 
melon, for the reason it was showing some 
deterioration, melons were not all growing 
uniform in size, and with the feeling that it is 
a grower’s duty to keep the type of all good 
melons up to standard, I carefully selected the 
seed and bred this variety until I now have a 
much better melon than the old Kleckley Sweet. 
This improved strain grows uniformly large, 
retaining all of the fine qualities as a table 
melon, with an important added feature of hav¬ 
ing much harder rind. The seed are creamy 
white, with a trace of brown on some of the 
seed, somewhat larger than the old type seed; 
the color of rind remains the same—dark bluish 
green—and grows much larger; 85 days; 25 
pounds. 
