What Is a Garden without Watermelons? 
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W atermelons 
Twenty-five cents spent for watermelon seed will produce enough 
melons for the entire season. Any home gardener can have deli¬ 
cious fruits, fresh from the patch, from the first of August until 
freezing weather. 4 oz. plants 100 hills. 4 lbs. to the acre. 
TOM WATSON. The old-time melon. A long smooth melon, dark 
green skin, vine hardy, vigorous and productive. The largest long 
melon you can grow. Oz., 10c; % lb., 25c; lb., 75c. 
STONE MOUNTAIN. Best large melon on the market. Combines 
extra large size with earliness and quality. Melon round in shape. 
Very dark green color. Unexcelled for sweetness and juiciness. Often 
weighs 60 to 60 lbs. Matures in 95 days. Oz., 10c; % lb., 25c; lb., 85c. 
SWEETHEART. Splendid shipper and popular home and market 
melon. Large, round, slightly oblong, light green, hard tough rind. 
Seeds black. Oz., 10c; % lb., 25c; lb., 85c. 
Dixie Queen 
TRIUMPH. Largest Melon grown, often weighs 
65 lbs. Dark green. Almost round. Red Heart, 
rather late maturing. One of the best late season 
melons. Oz., 10c; % lb., 25c; lb., 75c. 
IRISH GRAY. Especially valuable for distance 
shipping. Fruits large, oblong, uniform, light gray¬ 
ish green rind, flesh bright red, seeds white. Oz., 
10c; *4 lb., 25c; lb., 75c. 
KLECKLEUS SWEET OR MONTE CHRISTI. The 
home garden melon. Dark thin green rind, long 
oval fruit, usually weighs 25 to 35 lbs. Ripens in 
105 days. Oz., 10c; % lb., 25c; lb., 75c. 
HALBERT HONEY. Our best all around Melon. 
Especially good for home use and market gardeners. 
Long melon similar to Kleckley's Sweet. Green, 
with bright red heart, very crisp and sweet. Free 
of stringiness. Oz., 10c; % lb., 25c; lb., 85c. 
DIXIE QUEEN in some sections is known as 
Cuban Queen. A new melon which is an enormous 
yielder, vines are vigorous, melons in form are 
round to oval, skin striped light and dark green, 
fruits are of good size, flesh bright red, crisp and 
splendid quality and good shipper. Seeds small 
white, and very few in each melon, one pound of 
Dixie Queen seed will plant as much ground as two 
pounds of Stone Mountain or other large seeded 
melons. Early maturing, 85 days, 30 to 40 pounds. 
Oz., 10c; V*. lb., 30c; lb., $1.00. 
MUSTARD 
TENDERGREEN. Rapid and vigorous growth, nar¬ 
row spoon-shaped leaves, standing longer than most 
varieties without shade. For home garden as well as 
shipping. Oz., 5c; lb., 15c; lb., 50c. 
SOUTHERN GIANT CURLED. 
Large light green leaves tinged with 
yellow, crinkled and flattened at the 
edge. Upright, slightly spreading 
plant. Very vigorous growing and 
good quality. Oz., 5c; 34 lb., 15c; 
lb., 50c. 
OKRA 
DWARF, LONG GREEN POD. Es- 
Giant Southern Curled Mustard pecially adapted for home gardens. 
Pods remain in fine condition for 
cooking and canning until quite large. Long, fluted, dark green, very good quality. 
Oz., 5c; *4 lb., 15c; lb., 50c. 
Okra 
Lod£ Green Pod 
ONIONS 
No other vegetable probably is 
used in so many ways as onions. 
Whether cooked alone or with other 
vegetables they are equally desir¬ 
able. As an appetizer they have no 
superior. A row or two of onions in 
a home garden will furnish a sup¬ 
ply from midsummer until the fol¬ 
lowing spring. Plant shallow, 34 to 
36 inch deep, in rows 15 inches 
apart. 36 oz. will plant 100 ft. row. 
5 lbs. to the acre. 
RED ONIONS 
RED WETHERSFIELD. One of 
the earliest best known red onion. 
Even in poor soil it produces heav¬ 
ily. Large, flat, thick, deep purple 
red skin. One of the best keepers. 
34 oz., 10c; oz., 20c; 34 lb., 75c. 
SOUTHPORT RED GLOBE. Also 
one of the best keepers. Large, 
medium early, smooth, deep pur¬ 
plish red skin. Fine grained and 
tender. ^ oz., 10c; oz., 20c; ^4 lb., 
60c; lb., $2.25. 
Photograph we took on one of the Rohnert seed ranches in California last 
summer. It takes a lot of work to produce a 40 acre field of onion seed. Much 
of this work is now done by Filipinos. They are taking the place of the Japs 
on these seed ranches. Many Japs though are in the onion production themselves. 
There is no more cheap labor by these people, 35c per hour being about the 
minimum. Much of the work is done by the pound, bushel or some other 
measure. Whole families work this way. By the father, mother and three or 
four children working they make as much as $50 to $75 a week. Prunes are 
not picked from the trees, but drop on the ground and picked up this way. A 
good picker will pick up 100 baskets in a day for which he receives five cents a 
basket. Boys 10 to 15 years old often make $2.50 a day. Most of the common 
labor is done by Filipinos, Japs and Chinamen. 
