y GURNEY’S CHOICE WATERMELONS 
DELICIOUS WATERMELONS 
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AUGUST 1st 
Earliest and Sweetest 
Round Light Icing 
Fordhook Early 
Sugar Swika 
• ROUND LIGHT ICING 
Fruit medium sized, nearly round, greenish 
white, slightly veined or dotted with light green. 
The flesh is light red, sweet and crisp, seed white. 
A very early melon producing remarkable crops. 
Late in May in the spring of 1921, we had a tele¬ 
phone order from one of our customers for more 
than 100 pounds of this seed. I advised that it 
was too late to plant any watermelon, but he in¬ 
sisted on planting and I recommended some 
earlier varieties; but he still insisted on Round 
Light Icing, and he marketed from that field 
dozens of carloads about as early as the earliest 
varieties, and received top prices for them. 
Pkt., 5c; 1 oz., 10c; 14 lb., 20c; y 2 lb., 35c; 
1 lb., 65c; 5 lbs., $3.00, Postpaid. 
• FORDHOOK EARLY 
Without a rival. This is the earliest large- 
fruited melon in cultivation. These fruits are of 
good size, rather short and blocky in form, with 
large diameter; skin dark green, occasionally 
with faint stripes of lighter green; flesh bright 
red, crisp, sweet, and of splendid quality; rind 
quite thin, but skin tough; makes a fair shipping 
variety. Pkt., 5c; oz., 10c; !4 lb., 20c; 1 lb., 
70c; 5 lbs., $3.00, Postpaid. 
Many of our market gardeners have dis¬ 
carded all other early watermelons and 
raise only Fordhook Early. 
• EARLIEST AND SWEETEST 
The average weight of this melon would prob¬ 
ably be from 12 to 15 lbs., flesh scarlet, very fine 
grained, and the flavor is delicious. The seeds 
are white. Vines producing wonderful crops, 
often producing eight to twelve melons to the 
vine. We wish to say to our Northern customers 
that this Earliest and Sweetest melon is the one 
they should plant. There is but little use in 
planting the large late varieties in your locality. 
They are only a disappointment, nearly ripe 
when the frost comes. You will always get under 
the wire with the Earliest and the Sweetest. 
Pkt., 7c; 1 oz., 15c; !4 lb., 30c; 1 lb., 85c; 5 
lbs., $3.50. Postpaid. 
*300°° PER ACRE 
Can easily be realized from an acre of 
melons. This selection of varieties will do it. 
Make this the most profitable acre on your 
farm. 
Collection No. 50, Enough Seed for 1 Acre. 
!4 Lb., Earliest and Sweetest.$0.30 
y 2 Lb., Round Light Icing 
y 2 Lb., Fordhook Early. 
y 2 Lb., Gurney’s New Winter 
% Lb., Red Seeded Hutchinson. 
1 Lb., Gurney’s Mastodon Radio 
TOTAL. 
.35 
.35 
.45 
.60 
.80 
.$2.85 
BARGAIN PRICE, 
Postpaid. 
$250 
WATERMELONS 
ON EVERY FARM 
IN 1936 
Good Big Ones 
Red Seed Hutchinson 
Gurney’s Mastodon Radio 
• CORPORAL GURNEY 
We have called this “Corporal Gurney” al¬ 
though it is absolutely “General” in quality. It 
is an oblong melon, shorter and much thicker 
through than the Tom Watson and Klecklev. 
In color it is a very pleasing gray, or a very light 
green. The rind is extremely hard, making it 
best of all melons for shipping purposes. It can 
be shipped across the United States and back 
again, and be equal to any freshly picked melon. 
The quality never has been surpassed and prob¬ 
ably never will be. The rind is thin, but strong 
enough so that the heaviest man can stand on it 
without injuring it. This melon is not as early as 
the earliest, but will be classed as a medium early 
melon. Plant one packet of Corporal Gurney for 
a real melon patch. Pkt., 7c; oz., 13c; !4 lb., 
25c; 1 lb., 80c; 5 lbs., $3.50. Postpaid. 
• TOM WATSON 
The Tom Watson is one of the very best ship¬ 
pers of the long melons, and one of the best 
quality. The melons will grow to a length of 
about two feet, and about one foot in diameter. 
The rind is a hard mottled green, thin, but tough 
enough to endure shipping to any distant mark¬ 
et. The flesh is deep red and comes very close to 
the rind and it sells readily on the market when 
there is no demand for others. Pkt., 5c; oz., 10c; 
!4 lb., 20c; 1 lb., 65c; 5 lbs., $3.00. Postpaid. 
D. B., Chan and Don Sampling Red Seeded Hutchinson, Corporal Gurney and Mastodon Radio Watermelons 
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GURNEY’S MASTODON RADIO WATERMELON 
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RED SEEDED HUTCHINSON-ONE OF THE BEST 
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Watermelons are liked by everyone, and the kids especially like to go out 
and crawl into someone’s corn field hoping that they will find a watermelon 
patch. Gurney’s Mastodon Radio Watermelon will produce more melons 
than any other variety; it also produces the largest melons; the flavor can¬ 
not be beat, and you will never find the hard core as in so many of the 
melons. 
It is not unusual to produce melons of this variety weighing ninety 
pounds. They have been known to exceed one hundred pounds. Its bright 
red flesh is of delicious flavor and the quality that calls for more. 
The glossy dark green skin and tough rind makes this one of the most 
attractive shipping melons on the market. 
Pkt., 7c; oz., 12c; !4 lb., 25c; 1 lb., 80c; 5 lbs., $3.50; Postpaid. 
This is the best of the new watermelons developed in the last few years. 
Large, nearly round, light green with dark green stripes. A load of them 
make a very attractive appearance. 
I like watermelon and eat lots of them and this year Red Seeded Hutch¬ 
inson is at the head of the list for size, appearance and quality. They have 
been toward the end of the summer about the only melons on the market in 
the Middle West, and certainly the quality is hard to improve on. They are 
fairly early, coming on the market after the early varieties are gone, and 
are so large and so good that they find a market at very attractive prices. 
Pkt., 7c; oz., 12c; !4 lb., 25c; 1 lb., 80c; 5 lbs., $3.50, Postpaid. 
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