FORTY-FIVE YEARS OF “GOLDEN RULE” SERVICE 
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VEGETABLE SEED—Continued 
Muskmelon 
The general satisfaction that our Melon Seed gave last 
season again proves the superior quality of our Melon 
Seed. For years this seed has stood the test of the most 
critical planters in the United States until today we are 
leaders in this line. 
Prices on all Muskmelons: Vz oz., 5c; 1 oz., 10c; M lb., 
25c; 1 lb., 90c. 
Banana. Lemon-colored skin when ripe, grows 20 to 28 inches 
long and 4 inches in diameter. Flesh pink, sweet and delicious. 
Good for home use. Matures in 90 days; weight often 7 lbs. 
Bender (Bender’s Surprise). A very popular melon in eastern 
markets. Flesh is deep orange, thick, and deliciously flavored ; 
rind is light green changing to golden tint when ripe, heavily 
ribbed and netted. Later than Irondequoit and more oblong in 
shape. The melons are uniformly large, often weighing from 
8 to 10 pounds, with superior shipping and keeping qualities. 
Barly Hackensack. Very early, green flesh, sweet, of good 
size, juicy, small seed 
space, good market 
melon. 
Kale 
(Or Borecole) 
Dwarf Green Curled Scotch. The 
best variety. Improves in winter. 
Green and beautiful. x / 2 oz., 5c; 
1 oz., 8c. 
Kohl-rabi 
(Or Turnip-Rooted Cabbage) 
Vk oz., 5c; 1 oz., 10c; % lb., 35c. 
Barly White Vienna. Flesh white 
and tender; used before fully 
grown. 
Early Purple Vienna. 
cept color. 
Leek 
Broad American Flag*, 
oz., 5c. 
Same ex- 
Best. y 2 
Hearts of Gold 
Emerald Gem. Old standard, smooth skin, salmon color flesh, very 
sweet, hardy, thrifty and prolific. 
Hale’s Best. The earliest maturing of all large melons. Even in a 
season remarkable for its coolness the fruits matured to luscious sweet¬ 
ness in 68 days after planting. The melons are oval but inclined to 
produce some fruit of somewhat more elongated shape. The popu¬ 
larity of Hale’s Best is due not only to its earliness but particularly 
tojthe sweet, tasty flavor of its beautiful salmon flesh. 
Hearts of Gold. Flesh orange color; fine 
flavor. Ripens in 70 days. Exceedingly 
productive, flesh firm, thin hard rind, 
splendid shipper. Try this for home and 
market gardens. Michigan growers get 
a higher price for it in city markets than 
any other melon. 
Honey Bock (or Sugar Rock). A won¬ 
derfully sweet melon with thick orange 
flesh and a distinctive flavor, suggesting 
the Honey Dew taste. It produces heav¬ 
ily and matures in 85 days. Oval fruits 
of medium size, not ribbed. An excellent 
home garden variety. 
Imperial Muskmelon. (New). A new 
round, netted variety with very thick 
flesh and an extremely small seed cavity. 
It can be thoroughly vine ripened and 
still be shipped. We consider this to be 
the coming market variety. 
Bake Champlain. (57 days). A new va¬ 
riety which has proved out supreme in 
numerous widely separated tests for har¬ 
diness, earliness, productiveness, and 
quality. The melon is medium sized, intricately netted, moderately 
ribbed ; the flesh is deep, very sweet and melting, of a beautiful golden 
yellow color. The plants are very vigorous and bushy, ripening perfect 
fruits even under adverse conditions, far in advance of all competing 
varieties. 
Osage (Miller’s Cream). Dark green, egg shape, medium size, a thick 
red-salmon meat, thin skin and best flavor. 
Bocky Ford or Netted Gem. Greatly improved over the Gem varieties, 
slightly oblong, very sweet and fine flavored, thick fleshed, early and 
sure. The kind you liked when a boy. Made Colorado famous for 
Muskmelons. 
Tip Top. Medium size, nearly round, slightly ribbed, nearly covered 
with netting, orange-colored flesh. An excellent market sort. 
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Allen’s Nurseries & Seed House, Fayette, Mo. 
Geneva, Ohio. 
Gentlemen: Just to inform you that in 1936 I grew a tomato that 
weighed 3)4 pounds and a lot of them over 2 pounds from seed I 
purchased of you in 1935. Respectfully, 
M. R. COCHRAN. 
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