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GURNEY’S SWEET AND SPICY MUSKMELONS 
For SHIPPING 
New Imperial Cantaloupe 
Gurney’s Golden Ice Cream 
Weavers Special 
Hearts of Gold 
Gurney’s Farthest North 
Rocky Ford 
1 Ounce for 50 Hills, 2 V 2 Pounds Per Acre 
Did you have all the muskmelon you wanted to eat last summer 
and fall? They are easy to raise, not bothered much by insects, 
and they surely are good. Don’t let another year pass without 
planting a patch of melons. 
I will be glad to come and help you eat them. 
For the HOME MARKET 
Golden Champlain — Earliest 
Benders Surprise 
Milwaukee Market 
Sugar Rock 
• GURNEY’S GOLDEN ICE CREAM 
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See Colored Picture on 
Inside Front Cover 
This is the second year we have 
listed this wonderful new golden 
fleshed muskmelon. We named it 
Ice Cream because the seed cavity 
is so small an ordinary dipper of 
ice cream completely fills it. An 
early melon—it ripens in from 80 
to 85 days. Fruits are 6 to 7 inches 
in diameter and almost round. 
Heavily netted, a good shipper, 
cream color when ripe. The Golden 
Ice Cream will outsell any melon 
on the market because of its fine 
appearance, thick yellow flesh, and 
delicious flavor. Pkt., 8c; oz., 
15c; !4 lb., 35c; / 2 lb., 60c; 
1 lb., $1.05; 5 lbs., $4.55. Post¬ 
paid. 
• NEW IMPERIAL 
CANTALOUPE 
For description and picture see 
page 7. Pkt., 8c; oz., 15c; V 4 lb., 
40c; / 2 lb., 75c; 1 lb., $1.25; 5 lbs., 
$5.00. Postpaid. 
• GOLDEN CHAMPLAIN 
Walrath’s Golden Champlain 
Muskmelon—This melon is so 
early that it can be grown much 
farther north than any other variety 
yet introduced. The nature of 
this New Melon is that it throws 
laterals and blossoms before the main stems are 
six inches long, and real fruit sets on these 
laterals and develops rapidly. You will find from 
eight to fifteen large melons in a bunch right 
around the hill where the seeds were planted, 
making easy and inexpensive handling when 
ripening. The first setting of melons on account 
of starting at the same time, mature at the same 
time, giving a large crop and the early money 
getter. The vines are exceptionally strong and 
hardy. Quality of fruit excellent, flesh golden 
yellow. Outside skin green, netted, and firm. 
Size from l/ 2 to 3 j/ 2 lbs. Three years out of 
four we have picked ripe melons fifty-seven days 
after planting seeds. 
This melon is successfully grown in the Lake 
Champlain district in high altitude, hence its 
name, Golden Champlain. 
Pkt., 7c; oz., I2c; 'A lb., 30c; / 2 lb., 50c; 1 
lb., 90c; 5 lbs., $3.90. Postpaid. 
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CULTURE: Muskmelons like a warm, 
rich soil. Plant in the open ground as soon 
as the weather is warm. Plant seed in hills 
4 to 6 feet apart each way. After the danger 
of insects is over thin to 3 plants to a hill. 
Muskmelons can be started in paper pots 
and transplanted to the open field. In this' 
way you gain 2 to 3 weeks in earliness. 
In our trial ground at 
Yankton we have tested 
every new kind of musk¬ 
melon introduced, discard¬ 
ing the poor ones and listing 
only those we know will 
please you. 
• HEARTS OF GOLD MUSKMELON 
On this page we show the best of varieties for 
the market gardener. Hearts of gold musk¬ 
melon. It is the hardiest, the highest yielding, 
and the best quality melon that can be grown 
in this Northern territory. It is an excellent 
shipper and a good keeper, and we recommend 
it especially to the market gardeners as it is 
exceptionally early. Pkt., 5c; oz., 12c; /* lb., 
30c; i/ 2 lb., 50c; I lb., 90c; 5 lbs., $3.90. Post¬ 
paid. 
• HONEY DEW MUSKMELON 
This large, round, delicious muskmelon is 
rather late and if grown north of Yankton, seed 
should be started in pots and transplanted to 
the field after danger of frost. The high yield 
and exceptional quality of this melon will more 
than repay you for this extra work. Honey Dew 
melons sell at an extremely high price, retailing 
often at from 25c to 75c each. The Honey Dew 
is in a class by itself, being different from any 
other. The flesh is very thick and firm, emerald 
green in color, spicy, and of a flavor that you do 
not get in any other melon. Melons 7 to 10 
inches in diameter, nearly round, and weigh from 
8 to 12 pounds. 
Green Fleshed Honey Dew—Pkt., 7c; oz., 
15c; 'A lb., 35c; 1 lb. $1.00. 
Golden Fleshed Honey Dew—In every 
respect the same as the Green Fleshed Honey 
Dew, except the flesh is a rich golden color. 
Pkt., 8c; oz., 20c; A lb., 40c; */ 2 lb., 70c; 1 lb. 
$ 1 . 20 . 
• BENDERS SURPRISE 
Folks here’s a real melon, one 
that I feel like recommending to 
everyone. A special strain of 
selected seed will be used for every 
order. It’s a melon that is excel¬ 
lent for shipping and a dandy for 
the local market—but best of all 
it's one that you will like better 
than any other because of its ex¬ 
cellent flavor. Melons are round 
to oval in shape, ribbed and cov¬ 
ered with coarse netting. Their 
flesh is exceptionally thick, and the 
melons rarely crack. The ripe 
melons have a golden tint giving 
the fruit a very attractive appear¬ 
ance. They are quite large, many 
weighing over ten pounds. Because 
the flesh is so thick and firm they 
remain in good condition much 
longer than other melons of this 
class, and remember that this is 
very important if you are going to 
ship. Package, 5c; oz., 12c; 
<A lb., 30c; i/ 2 lb., 50c; 1 lb., 90c; 
5 lbs. $3.65. Postpaid. 
• GURNEY’S FARTHEST 
NORTH 
This melon originated in the 
Imperial Valley in California and 
is one of the best long-distance 
shipping melons we have, but on 
account of its extreme earliness— 
maturing in 68 days from the 
planting of the seed—it can be 
grownfarther north than any other 
muskmelon. Salmon, flesh of exceptional thick¬ 
ness about 8x4 y 2 inches with heavy netting, 
fairly prominent ribs. Its chief values are its 
extreme earliness, its ability to stand longdis¬ 
tance shipping and its good quality. Pkt., 7c; 
oz., 15c; !4 lb., 35c; y 2 lb., 55c; 1 lb., $1.00; 
5 lbs., $4.10. Postpaid. 
• ROCKY FORD 
This variety is an improvement on the Netted 
Gem, and is largely grown in Colorado and 
shipped by the carload to the eastern cities. It 
is much sought after by hotel and restaurant 
keepers on account of its size and exceptionally 
fine flavor. Flesh is greenish white in color, 
very juicy and rich and good clear to the rind. 
It is medium in size, nearly round and a most 
excellent shipper. Pkt., 5c; oz., 10c; >A lb., 
25c; 1 lb., 80c; 5 lbs., $3.50. Postpaid. 
• WEAVERS SPECIAL 
This delicious, new, yellow meated muskmelon 
is one of the finest introduced in recent years. 
Flesh very thick and spicy, having much the 
same flavor as Honey Dew, which is one of its 
parents. The light green skin is very hard and 
well netted making it a good shipper. This melon 
can be thoroughly ripened on the vine and will 
still stand long distance shipping. The melons 
are perfectly round and weigh about 5 to 7 pounds 
each. One of our Yankton Market Gardeners 
planted one-half acre of Weavers Special this 
year and he is so well pleased with them that 
next year he is going to plant ten acres. Pkt., 
6c; oz., 12c; <A lb., 30c; 1 lb., 90c; 5 lbs., 
$3.90. Postpaid. 
The House of Gurney, Inc., Yankton, S. D. 
Dear Friends: 
We had wonderful melons from the one pound of Sugar Rock planted from your seed. We 
thank you. Yours truly, 
Mrs. Richard Meyer, 2208 Blackmore St., Saginaw, Mich. 
Plant Muskmelons, they will stand the dry weather 
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