• GURNEY’S WATERMELONS • 
0 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 all 
other melons for home, not shipping purposes. 
Pkt., 7c; oz., 15c; !4 lb., 30c; |/ 2 lb., 50c; 
1 lb., 85c. 
KLECKIEY 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; </ 4 lb., 20c; 1 lb., 70c; 5 
lbs., $3.00 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., 5c; oz., 15c; 14 lb., 25c; 14 lb., 50c; 1 
lb., 85c; 5 lbs., $3.75 Postpaid. 
CULTURE: The hills should be 8 ft. apart 
i 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 
3 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 70 to 100 days. 
Little Isla Jean Gray-Edison, Nebr. 
on a big Scarlet Wonder Watermelon 
• 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 re¬ 
sales as there is no better quality melon grown. 
Medium size, early, thin, tough rind—a good ship¬ 
ping melon as well as a melon for the home garden. 
Pkt., 5c; oz., 15c; y 4 lb., 25c; 1 lb., 80c; 5 
lbs. $3.50 Postpaid. 
• 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; y 4 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; 14 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. 
SUGAR SWIKA WATERMELON 
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• This new melon from Japan is earlier than any 
of our American melons, and we recommend this 
for planting as far north as melons have ever 
been grown. Weighs from 10 to 15 pounds. 
Light green skin. The vivid scarlet flesh is very 
firm, and it will stand shipping considerable dis¬ 
tances. One of the best quality melons we have 
ever raised at Yankton. We had ripe melons in 
73 days from the time the seed was planted. 
Did you ever see a yellow fleshed watermelon? 
We can furnish this new Japanese watermelon in 
red or yellow flesh. 
Red Fleshed—Pkt., 6c; 1 oz., 20c; J4 lb., 
60c; 1 lb., $1.75. Yellow Fleshed—Pkt., 8c; 1 
oz., 25c; ^ lb., 80c; 1 lb., $2.45. 
GURNEY’S SWEET AND SPICY MUSKMELONS 
For SHIPPING 
New Imperial Cantaloupe 
Gurney’s Golden Ice Cream 
Weavers Special 
Hearts of Gold 
Gurney’s Farthest North 
Rocky Ford 
1 Ounce for 50 Hills, 2 V 2 Pounds Per Acre 
Did you have all the muskmelon you wanted to eat last summer 
and-fall? They are easy to raise, not bothered much by insects, 
and they surely are good. Don’t let another year pass without 
planting a patch of melons. 
I will be glad to come and help you eat them. 
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For the HOME MARKET 
Golden Champlain—Earliest 
Benders Surprise 
Milwaukee Market 
Sugar Rock 
GURNEYS 
GOLDEN ICE CREAM 
See Colored Picture on 
Inside Front Cover 
% This is the second year we have listed this 
wonderful new golden fleshed muskmelon. We 
named it Ice Cream because the seed cavity is so 
small an ordinary dipper of ice cream complet¬ 
ely fills it. An [early melon—it ripens in from 
80 to 85 days. Fruits are 6 to 7 inches in diam¬ 
eter and almost round. Heavily netted, a good 
shipper, cream color when ripe. The Golden Ice 
Cream will outsell any melon on the market be¬ 
cause of its fine appearance, thick yellow flesh, 
and delicious flavor. Pkt., 7c; oz., 15c; !4lb.,35c; 
y 2 lb., 60c; 1 lb., $1.05; 5 lbs., $4.55. Postpaid. 
Elgin, Iowa 
Dear Sirs: 
I have been perfectly satisfied with all seed 
purchased of you. They have never failed to 
grow. Yours truly, 
Mrs. A. B. Erickson 
An All-American Winner 
MUSKMELON 
NEW IMPERIAL CANTALOUPE 
• An all-American winner. This is the only 
cantaloupe that can be allowed to ripen on the 
vine and still be shipped long distances. Other 
cantaloupes must-be picked from three days to a 
week before they are ripe and will never have the 
quality of the vine ripened fruit. The grower 
who has the New Imperial Cantaloupe can let 
his fruit get ripe on the vine, ship it long dis¬ 
tances, have it arrive at the market in perfect 
condition, and the quality will be better than any 
other melon. This is a heavily netted, round 
melon; small seed cavity; bright yellow flesh. 
One of the most attractive melons ever put on 
the market. Market gardeners can safely dis¬ 
card all others and raise only the new Imperial. 
Pkt., 7c; 1 oz., 15c; </ 4 lb., 35c; </ 2 lb., 60c; 
1 lb., $1.05; 5 lbs., $4.55 Postpaid. 
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Plant Muskmelons, they will stand the dry weather 
