PAINESVILLE. OHIO 
Reliable Garden Seed 9 
The Luscious Honey Rock. 
Harris’ Earliest Watermelon, 
Banana. (85 days). Make a long 
banana-like growth, very fragrant 
and of delicious flavor. Excellent 
for the home garden. 
Bender’s Surprise. An oval, heav¬ 
ily netted Melon averaging 10 
pounds of delicious flavor and 
sweetness. The deep orange flesh is very thick, the rind very firm, 
which helps hold them in good condition a week after picking. 
Barly Hackensack. (60 days). Extra early, large and produc¬ 
tive. Fruits deeply netted, flesh light green ; of most excellent 
quality. Recommended for sections with a short season. 
Hale’s Best days). The earliest maturing of all large 
* Melons. The melons are oval, inclined to some¬ 
what elongated shape. Its popularity is due not only to earli¬ 
ness but particularly to the tasty flavor and luscious sweetness 
of its beautiful salmon flesh. 
Hearts of Gold. (70 days). Good to look at with its fine netting, 
fairly distinct ribs, uniform just-right table size, and satisfying 
abundance. The flesh is a luscious pink and gold, with little 
waste in seed cavities; flavor unexcelled; shipping profitably. 
Unnov Rnnk days). An entirely distinct new variety; 
noney extremely prolific, large in size, of attractive 
appearance (round, not ribbed, heavily gray-netted over golden 
yellow), so tough it handles and ships perfectly. Its deep, melt¬ 
ing, orange-colored flesh with tantalizingly sweet aroma, are 
irx’esistible inducements to take, eat and enjoy one of the best 
flavored Melons ever produced. A great market seller. 
I f^kamnlain (57 days). A new early variety successful 
kane vnampiain numerous widely separated tests for 
hardiness, earliness, productiveness and quality. The Melon is 
medium sized, intricately netted, moderately ribbed; the flesh is 
deep, very sweet and melting, of a beautiful golden yellow color ; 
the plants vigorous and bushy, 
Nicholson’s New Honey Ball. (90 days). “Sweetest of the 
Sweet.” The sugar sweet flesh of Honeydew encased within 
thin, firm, perfectly round rind. Of medium size, hardy, pro¬ 
lific and long keeping. 
(75 days). Of unifonn quality, sweet and delicious. The 
usage jg thin, dark green and slightly netted; flesh deep 
salmon, of spicy flavor. A good keeper and largely planted. 
Rocky Ford. (70 days). Flesh greenish white, very juicy and 
good clear to the rind. Medium, round, oval; an excellent 
keeper. 
Tip Top. (80 days). Very productive, medium size, nearly round, 
slightly ribbed, covered with shallow netting; flesh deep yellow. 
WATERMELON 
CUZiTVRB. The best soil for growing these tempting, luscious 
products of the field, is sand, but well drained loam if sun- 
warmed will produce excellent crops. Plant in hills 8 feet apart 
aach way, using a shovelful of well-rotted manure in each hill, 
thin to 6 plants to hill, after all danger of bugs is past, further 
thin to 4 plants. Do not plant melon seeds until the ground is 
thoroughly warmed. Use “Slug Shot” for bugs. One ounce plants 
20 to 40 hills or 4 pounds fo,r 1 acre. 
PRI(I 
All varieties: Pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; 
% lb., 25c; lb., 75c. 
MUSKMELON 
CUI.TURB. Melons require rich 
soil. Sow 10 to 15 seeds to each hill, 
which should be 6 feet apart each 
way. When well started thin out to 
3 or 4 strongest plants. One ounce 
will sow or plant 50 hills, 2 or 3 
pounds to the acre. 
PRKI 
Pkt.. 10c; oz., 15c; 
lb., 35c; lb., 90c. 
— I- (®® days). An extra early Melon of fine 
r OrCinoOK Eiariy flavor and large size. Uniform medium 
green. Flesh red and sweet. 
■j - f (5® days). The best variety for northern 
narriS KariieSL latitudes, largest and sweetest of all the 
early Melons. Oval in shape, green striped with gray, attaining 
a weight of 20 to 30 pounds. Firm hard rind, shipping well ; 
flesh bright red and tender, very sweet and delicious. 
Kleckley’s Sweet. (70 days). The skin is a rich, dark green, the 
flesh bright scarlet, ripening close to the rind. 
tA/af-enn (®® days). One of the very best Melons intro- 
I ne Yvaison flaggfl date. Perfect in shape, rind is dark, 
glossy green, very tough and thin, the flesh dark red, very crisp, 
no strings and most delicious. Popular, not alone for its luscious 
flavor and captivating inner beauty, but also for the ease in 
carrying, stacking and handling due to its uniform elongated 
shape. 
Winter Watermelon 
A home-grown Melon for your Thanksgiving dinner I Genuine 
midseason form and luscious flavor carried on into winter. This is 
not a “Citron,” nor a freak, but a v'ery prolific long-keeping true 
watermelon type of medium size, round shape, yellowish rind with 
flesh bright red, crystalline, sweet as honey. Take fruits from 
field before frost, and store in a cool cellar. 
