GURNEY’S CHOICE WATERMELONS 
^DELICIOUS WATERMELONS 
^ BY AUGUST 1st 
Early Red Heart 
Earliest and Sweetest 
Round Light Icing 
Fordhook Early 
Sugar Swika 
• EARLY RED HEART 
SIX REASONS WHY THIS HIGH QUAL¬ 
ITY WATERMELON DESERVES A PLACE 
IN EVERY GARDEN IN THE NORTHWEST. 
1. EARLINESS—As early as any melon grown. 
In ordinary seasons melons will ripen clear 
to the Canadian line. 
2. QUALITY—The sweetest melon we have 
ever tasted; firm flesh, big hearted. A strictly 
high quality melon. 
3. SIZE—Weight from 8 to 12 pounds—just 
right for the average family. 
4. APPEARANCE—Perfectly round, medium 
green with darker stripes. A load of these 
melons make a very attractive sight. When 
cut the bright scarlet flesh and small jet 
black seeds make a picture to stir the 
heart of a melon eater. 
5. YIELD—While the melons are not large, 
they set so many melons to the vine that 
Early Red Heart will outyield most of the 
larger melons. 
6. PROFIT—The early melons bring high 
prices. Red Heart is early. High quality 
melons bring repeat orders. Red Heart is a 
delicious melon. An acre of Early Red Heart 
should produce from 3000 to 5000 salable 
melons. Pkt., 10c; oz., 18c; !4 lb., 35c; 
1 lb., $1.10; 5 lbs., $4.50 Postpaid. 
• 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., 6c; 1 oz., 15c; 14 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 
/ 2 Lb., Early Red Heart.45 
y 2 Lb., Fordhook Early.35 
y 2 Lb., Gurney’s New Winter.45 
% Lb., Red Seeded Hutchinson.60 
1 Lb., Gurney’s Mastodon Radio .80 
TOTAL.$2.95 
BARGAIN PRICE, $050 
Postpaid.. .. Am 
WATERMELONS 
ON EVERY FARM 
IN 1937 
Good Big Ones 
Red Seeded Hutchinson 
Gurney’s Mastodon Radio 
• 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., 5c; oz., 15c; (4 lb., 30c; 1 lb., 85c; 5 
lbs., $3.75 Postpaid. 
GURNEY’S MASTODON RADIO WATERMELON ■ 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 
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; A lb., 25c; 1 lb., 80c; 5 lbs., $3.50, Postpaid. 
Make the farm attractive to the children —Plant Watermelons 
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