• MILWAUKEE MARKET 
Brother Don planted about an 
acre of Milwaukee Market one 
year. Not because he wanted to; 
but on account of the dry weather 
he lost a big field of Strawber¬ 
ries and had to fill in with something else. 
It was a fortunate proposition, as Milwaukee 
Market proved to be the earliest, good sized, high 
quality, thick yellow meated Muskmelon that 
appeared on the market, and he realized a good 
price from them, selling the immense crop at 
from 15c to 25c per melon. 
The ribs are fairly prominent, and the netting 
heavy. Shape slightly oval. A light green or 
cream color. I believe it will produce as many 
melons to the acre as any melon you can plant, 
and when it comes to quality — Oh Boy! Pkt., 5c; 
oz., 10c; J4 lb., 25c; 1 lb., 80c; 5 lbs., $3.50 
Postpaid. 
GURNEY’S MUSKMELONS 
, 
$300 PER ACRE 
Is easy with the right vari¬ 
eties of Muskmelons. This list 
will do it. 
Collection No. 77, Enough 
Seed for 1 acre. 
% lb. Gurney’s Golden 
Ice Cream.$0.80 
!4 lb. New Imperial 
Cantelope.75 
!4 lb. Hearts of Gold. . .50 
!4 lb. Weaver’s Special. .30 
!4 lb. Milwaukee Mar¬ 
ket.25 
Total $2.60 
BARGAIN PRICE, 
Postpaid. * 2.20 
• SUGAR ROCK OR 
HONEY ROCK 
This is a new and unusually fine 
melon. Sweet as sugar and solid 
as a rock. It has four main points 
of superiority; quality, productive¬ 
ness, ability to stand shipping and 
appearance. Its flavor and quality 
are the finest we have ever seen, the 
flesh being a very deep salmon color 
right out to the very rind. Under 
good growing conditions it is a very 
heavy yielder, often producing five 
to seven perfect melons on one vine. 
Its rind is unusually hard, making 
it a good shipper. This wonderful, 
new melon is as early as the Rocky 
Ford and one-third larger— making 
it suitable for either home or mar¬ 
ket gardening. Pkt., 5c; oz., I2c; 
!4 lb., 25c; >4 lb., 45c; 1 lb., 80c; 
5 lbs., $3.50 Postpaid. 
® VEGETABLE SPAGHETTI 
This remarkable vegetable grows 
and sets fruits freely. 
The smooth creamy white 
skinned fruits measure about 8 in. 
long and 4 in. in diameter. 
You pick the fruit when well 
matured and cook it in boiling 
water for about 20 minutes, take 
it out and cut and you will find a 
quantity of stringy Spaghetti-like 
contents which is quite tasty when seasoned with 
vinegar, sauce, or cooked in other ways. 
The fruits can be stored until late spring. 
The following three points are important: 
1. Do not pick too young. Leave until fully matured. 
2. Do not skin or cut the fruits. They must be 
cooked whole. 3. Do not cook too long as this 
will soften the stringy texture of the contents. 
Pkt., 7c; y 2 oz., 15c; 1 oz., 25c. 
• WINTER WATERMELON 
Yankton, S. D., has the best equipped State 
Hospital, takes better care of its patients, and 
cures more than any other in the United States. 
It is equipped with theatre, dance hall, ball 
ground, tennis court. You wonder what this has 
to do with winter watermelons. I am just com¬ 
ing to that. I have been on the grounds of the 
Hospital for the Insane at Yankton a number of 
times, and it was not unusual to see hundreds of 
the patients on these beautiful grounds, each 
patient, if they wanted it, eating watermelon. 
Their garden covers about thirty acres, and they 
had thousands of the winter watermelons. It is 
not only good at time of maturity but can be har¬ 
vested and kept well up to Christmas time. It is 
medium-sized, almost clear white rind, the 
brightest red flesh and small black seeds, very 
firm and very tough rind. These should be har¬ 
vested when ripe, not overripe, placed in a cool 
dry cellar; or place them in the open in straw, 
seeing that the melons do not touch each other 
and covering all of them with sufficient straw to 
keep from freezing. Take them out as wanted. 
Pkt., 7c; oz., 15c; 14 lb., 25c; 1 lb., 85c; 5 
lbs., $3.75 Postpaid. 
• KLECKLEY SWEET 
Vines are strong-growing, producing uni¬ 
formly large-sized melons. The fruits are oblong. 
The skin is dark green. Flesh is bright scarlet 
and ripens to within one-half inch of the rind. 
The quality is very rich and sweet, hence its 
name. For the home market or family garden 
it is decidedly one of the best. 
Pkt., 5c; oz., 10c; 14 lb., 20c; 1 lb., 70c; 5 
lbs., $3.00 Postpaid. 
• SUGAR SWIKA 
See page 7 for description. We can furnish 
this new extra early Japanese watermelon in 
either red, yellow or white flesh—or we will send 
you one ounce each of the three colors for 75c. 
CULTURE: The hills should be 8 ft. apart 
each way, with some well rotted manure in 
each hill. Plant the seed as soon as the 
weather is warm. An ounce will plant about 
30 hills; 3 or 4 pounds of seed to the acre. 
Allow two or three plants to remain in each 
hill. Ready to use in 60 or 100 days. 
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Helen Teall and a Gurney's Scarlet Wonder 
Watermelon 
New Sharon, Iowa April 5, 1935 
The House of Gurney 
Gentlemen: 
I put out a patch of Scarlet Wonder water¬ 
melons last year, they stood the drouth and 
are surely a fine melon. 
Guy R. Wells New Sharon, Iowa 
• GURNEY’S SCARLET WONDER 
Did you ever see a scarlet watermelon, not 
just red, but a bright flaming scarlet Gurney’s 
new scarlet wonder is what melon growers have 
long wanted but have never been able to find. 
The black seeds and dark green rind con¬ 
trasting sharply with the bright scarlet flesh 
make sales for this melon when other varieties 
are a drug on the market. 
Appearance sells the first melons. The high 
quality takes care of resales as there is no better 
quality melon grown. Medium size, early, thin, 
tough rind— a good shipping melon as well as a 
melon for the home garden. 
Pkt., 7c; oz., 15c; 14 lb., 25c; 1 lb., 80c; 5 
lbs., $3.50 Postpaid. 
• WILT RESISTANT WATERMELON 
PRIDE OF MUSCATINE 
This is an improved strain of Kleckley’s 
Sweet, developed by the Iowa Agricultural 
College at Ames. 
It is bred to resist melon wilt and is the only 
melon that can be raised in many parts of Iowa, 
Wisconsin and Illinois where wilt is prevalent. 
The Pride of Muscatine is a better shipper 
than the regular strain of Kleckley’s Sweet, as 
it has a thicker rind.' 
Pkt., 7c: oz., 15c; !4 lb., 30c; J4 lb., 50c; 1 
lb., 85c; 5 lbs., $3.75 Postpaid. 
• GOLDEN HONEY SWEET 
The most desirable yellow meated melon, and 
for home use the best of all melons. Very thin 
rind, golden yellow flesh, so remarkably sweet 
and tender that they will be chosen above a' 
other melons for home, not shipping purpose . 
Pkt., 7c; oz., 15c; 14 lb., 30c; Yz lb., 50c; 
1 lb., 85c. 
$300.00 income from one acre of melons is not unusual 
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