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BE SURE TO PLANT STONE MOUNTAIN WATERMELON 
WATERMELON 
Native of Central Africa 
Sow in Hills 8 Feet Apart in Each Direction. 3 Ounces Will Plant 100 Hills; Use 4 Pounds Per Acre 
Breaks ground in 8 days. One inch high in 11 days 
under most favorable circumstances in greenhouse 
Watermelons do best in sandy soil on sod, or well prepared ground by plowing down a crop of Winter 
Wheat or Winter Rye, the sod or grain aerating or keeping loose the soil. When the walnut tree is in bloom, 
the seed should be planted in hills at 8 feet apart in each direction. Two large shovelfuls of well-rotted 
stable manure dug and trampled into each hill and covered with earth will help wonderfully. 
The planter should be prepared to use 4 pounds of seed per acre if necessary, reserving some for replanting 
in case of destruction to the plants by insect depredations or beating rains. One vine alone to the hill should 
be allowed to retain perfection with 680 hills to the acre, which should produce 2040 first-class Melons. 
Much of the Melon seed offered throughout the country is the product of immature and deformed melons 
remaining in the fields after all the choice fruit has been marketed. Landreths’ seed is from mature melons 
grown especially for seed and not gathered from fields after all the best Melons have been marketed. 
Wonder or Improved Kleckley Sweet or Monte Cristo (see page 79) 
Augusta Rattlesnake, Gypsy or Georgia—85 
Days 
Seed creamy white with black tips. Here we have 
an old Southern standby, an excellent shipper and 
ready seller. A long, large, bright, yellowish green 
melon with irregular stripes of very dark green, 
the ground color marbled with a medium green. 
Flesh bright scarlet. 18 x 12 inches. 
Excel—100 Days 
Seed black and brown. This is an early and prolific 
bearer, color of rind deep green with a mottled, 
darker green stripe. Flesh deep red, solid and 
crystalline, and a fine flavor, ripened well up to the 
rind. A most excellent shipping melon. Average 
weight from 30 to 50 pounds, often 60 pounds 
under favorable conditions. Large, long and a 
good keeper. 20 x 12 inches. 
Excel White Seeded—100 Days 
Same as the dark in every respect except color of 
seed. 
Florida Favorite—85 Days 
A vigorous, very productive vine, producing large, 
long fruits which are dark green in color, with irreg¬ 
ular mottled strippings of a lighter shade. Flesh very 
sweet, deep red in color and of excellent quality. 
Rind is thin but stands up well. Seed white. 16 x 
10 inches. 
Halbert Honey—88 Days 
Seed creamy white with brown tips. Similar to 
Kleckley Sweet, about 20 inches long, oblong, form 
almost equally round at each end, rind dark green, 
sweet and unsurpassed. A fine long cylindrical 
Melon for home use.. Flesh bright red. 20 x 12 
inches. 
Irish Grey—90 Days 
Color of seed all creamy white. A new melon 
but badly named. Very popular as a shipper. 
Fruit long, oval, light grey color outside. Flesh 
bright red, free from hard centers. 17 x 10 inches. 
Pkt. 
Oz. 
Mlb. 
Lb. 
Augusta Rattlesnake... 
. . . .05 
.10 
.25 
.70 
Excel. 
. . . .05 
.10 
.25 
.80 
Excel White Seeded. 
. . . .05 
.15 
.30 
.90 
Florida Favorite. 
. . . .05 
.10 
.25 
.75 
Halbert Honey. 
. . . .05 
.10 
.25 . 
.75 
Irish Grey. 
. . . .05 
.10 
.25 
.75 
