“BEST POSSIBLE” 
SEEDS 
CHAS. C. HART SEED CO. —23— WETHERSFIELD, CONN. 
popone MUSKMELON melon 
Bender's Surprise 
Melons do best in 
sandy soil or sod 
land; hills should 
be four feet apart 
with ten to twelve 
seeds in each hill 
and when danger 
of frost is over thin 
to four good plants 
in each hill. Culti¬ 
vate as long as 
possible. Plant in 
May or June. 
One ounce sows 
50 hills, two pounds 
one acre. 
GREEN FLESHED 
Extra Early Hackensack —Medium sized, nearly 
round, deep ribbed, very coarse netting. Good 
flavor. 80 days. 
Rocky Ford —Light green and of excellent flavor 
with a small seed cavity. Small, round, smooth 
and heavily netted. Excellent shipper and one 
of the most popular sorts. 90 days. 
Honey Dew —Marvelously sweet honey-like flavor. 
Fruit large, smooth and cream colored, some¬ 
what oval shaped. Growing in popularity all 
the time. 110 days. 
SALMON FLESHED 
Honey Rock —A wonderful new golden-yellow 
fleshed melon rivaling a honey comb in 
luscious sweetness and of easy culture. 90-95 
days. 
Emerald Gem— Excellent early sort, fruit slightly 
flat, lightly netted, flesh thick and rich, deli¬ 
ciously flavored with a small seed cavity. 88 
days. 
Osage or Miller's Cream —Fruit large, round, 
slightly ribbed, dark green. Flesh thick and of 
the finest quality. 90 days. 
Hearts of Gold —Medium size, ideal shipping 
melon and very desirable for the home garden. 
Fruit is round and uniform in size. Netting fine 
and dense. Rind thin and firm and flesh is firm 
and thick, of fine texture and deliciously 
flavored. 94 days. 
Bender's Surprise —There is no large melon 
which can compare with the Benders. It is 
medium early with deep orange flesh which is 
very thick and deliciously sweet. The fruit is 
oval shaped, light green with fine netting and 
turns a golden yellow when ripe. It attains 
large size and keeps and ships splendidly. 
Our seed is from hand cut melons only. 95 
days. 
Rhubarbe RHUBARB Rabarbaro 
Roots may be grown from seed sown in the 
spring and are ready to transplant to the per¬ 
manent bed the following year, 
Myatt's Victoria —Earliest of all; stalks are large 
and colored light green and scarlet. 
Delicious —A new variety closely resembling 
Bender's Surprise but of extra-early maturity, 
coming in nearly at the season of Golden 
Champlain. The light green, finely netted oval 
fruits have very tender flesh of a deep orange- 
yellow color and very rich, sweet flavor. They 
weigh about 5 pounds, slightly smaller than 
Benders. 88 days. 
Golden Champlain —The earliest melon grown. 
It is medium sized and of fine quality and is of 
the Emerald Gem type. Where the gardener 
has difficulty in ripening melons Golden 
Champlain is very valuable. Not a good ship¬ 
ping melon. 88 days. 
MUSKMELON 
Pkt. 
Oz. 
v* ib. 
1 lb. 
Extra Early 
Hackensack . .. 
$0.10 $0.15 $0.35 
$1.10 
Rocky Ford. 
.10 
.15 
.35 
1.10 
Honey Dew. 
.10 
.15 
.55 
1.75 
Honey Rock. 
.10 
.20 
.45 
1.50 
Emerald Gem .. . 
.10 
.15 
.35 
1.10 
Osage . 
.10 
.15 
.35 
1.10 
Hearts of Gold.. 
.10 
.15 
.40 
1.25 
Bender’s Surprise 
.10 
.20 
.45 
1.50 
Delicious . 
.10 
.20 
.55 
1.75 
Golden Champlain 
.10 
.15 
.40 
1.25 
RHUBARB . 
.10 
.20 
.45 
1.50 
SALSIFY . 
.10 
.20 
.50 
1.70 
Salsifis SALSIFY Sassefrica 
Sow seed in May in rows two feet apart and 
thin plants to three inches. The general culture 
is like parsnip. Delicious stews may be made 
from them resembling nothing so much as oyster 
stew. 
Mammoth Sandwich Island —A large improved 
variety of the very best quality. 
Treated Ifielon seed is more productive 
