ling qualities. These advantages enable you to establish a high- 
class trade before other melons are ready for market. 
In order to make it perfectly clear to everyone that this 
melon is not in the experimental stage, we wish to state that 
we originated this variety lourteen \cais ago, and specialized in 
it several years before introducing it commercially. 
AS SAFE AS CORN 
Our point in this a ’tide is to show to what a great extent 
the Golden Champlain takes the risk out of melon growing. We 
are justified in believing that it is just as safe a crop as corn, 
which is the greatest reliance of American agriculture. In fact the 
Champlain succeeds in climates where corn is too uncertain to 
warrant raising it; as far north as Winnipeg, Canada; in the 
high, cool New England States of Maine, New Hampshire and 
Vermont, and also as far south as Florida, Texas and Southern 
California. In pioof of our claims we are printing a number 
of letters from our customers in various parts of the country. 
Many of these came from men who were so well pleased with 
the Champlain that they ordered more seed during the Fall. 
EARLINESS 
gives you the best price for your melons, it gives you the ad¬ 
vantage of good warm weather for their proper ripening, in¬ 
stead of the colder and uncertain weather of the later season. It 
lessens your expense of hoeing and cultivating because full growth 
is reached sooner. No other melon has ever come near the records 
of the Golden Champlain which has in favorable seasons ripened 
its fruit in 5 7 days from the time of planting the seed in the 
open field. This earliness is due to its rapid germination and 
vigorous growth, early blossoming and setting, and rapid de¬ 
velopment after setting. It is only a short time after the melons 
reach full size until they are ripe. 
QUALITY 
The Golden Champlain is the only early melon with high 
quality of the best later ones. Its flavor has won it the highest 
praise from all who have tried it. The best dealers, stores and 
hotels everywhere prefer the Champlain to any others because 
; has given the greatest satisfaction to their patrons. Its earliness 
puts it in the market first, and its high quality keeps it in the 
greatest demand throughout the season. The fact that it stands 
up so well in transporting and handling is another point in its 
favor among dealers, and it does not crack open at the end, a 
fault which ruins so many good melons of some varieties. 
EXPERIMENT STATION REPORTS 
In addition to these reports from professional market grow¬ 
ers are those from State or Government Experiment stations; 
Very poor season, temperature far below normal, through¬ 
out the summer and entirely too much rain. Golden Cham¬ 
plain again matured earlier than any others in test, and was of 
considerably larger size than last year, at which time we had 
very dry weather.”—(Prof. W. H. Schneck, Cornell University, 
New York State College of Agr.) 
Weather conditions here this season, as in other parts of 
Canada, were very adverse to the production of a good melon 
crop. As a result, we got meagre results from our plantation, 
which when compared with the results obtained from the Go.d- 
m Champlain, showed this melon up very favorably.”—(Prof, 
r. S. Ritchie, Dominion Exp. Fa:ms, Ottawa, Canada.) 
You may rely with confidence upon the opinion of these 
scientific investigatois, as it is their duty to make ca.eful and 
impartial tests and reports. They have no object in making 
