QUALITY 
PURITY 
Presenting the 
26 th Annual Catalogue 
of the Rocky Ford 
Cantaloupe Seed Breeders Association 
TO OUR FRIENDS AND CUSTOMERS 
This 1935 catalogue is being sent only to a selected list of our customers, and we 
are using this means of telling you something of our 1934 seed crops. 
Due to a variety of reasons—shortage of irrigation waters, a hot, dry season, and 
no carry-over from the previous year—our supply of seed is very limited. In view of 
Careful selective work was necessary to produce the thick meat and exceptionally 
small cavity of this green-fleshed JADE BEAUTY. 
this fact, we are making no attempt to secure a wide distribution of this catalogue 
in order to boost our sales. We know now that we will not have sufficient seed to sup¬ 
ply all our orders. Because of this, we are sending our catalogues only to those who 
have ordered from us during the past few years. 
We are sending this catalogue only to our old customers as an expression of ap¬ 
preciation of the orders they have given us in the past. We are anxious to supply these 
people with the same high quality of seed that they have been getting in the past, 
rather than sell it to new customers and being forced, when our supplies are exhausted, 
to tell our old customers that we have no seed for them. 
Our customers who have ordered from us before know the quality of our seed and 
we need not tell you about it. We make only this suggestion:—that, if you are intend- 
THE ROCKY FORD CANTALOUPE SEED BREEDERS ASSOCIATION 
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