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Nothing tastes finer than luscious vine-ripened MUSKMELONS just dripping 
with sweetness. They’re easy to grow and take up little room. BENDERS SUR- 
PRISE makes huge melons with deep salmon flesh, while DELICIOUS is an earlier 
and smaller edition. GOLDEN CHAMPLAIN is the earliest melon grown, while 
HONEY ROCK is the sweetest although somewhat smaller. PRIDE OF 
WISCONSIN is a new, large sized, early melon which is becoming popular, and 
HEARTS OF GOLD is a favorite with roadside stands)5 EMERALD GEM is a 
small, old time, home garden favorite of nice flavor while OSAGE is larger and 
later. IMPERIAL is a very heavy yielding netted round melon popular with com- 
mercial growers. All of them are good, tasty melons but your selection of varieties 
depends on whether you grow them to eat right away or to sell. 
Although most Northerner’s believe our season is too short for WATERMELONS, 
that is anything but true. HARRIS EARLY and WONDERMELON are two rapid 
growers which succeed almost anywhere. The former is fairly small and round, 
while the latter is long and slender and of wonderful flavor. Other fine melons 
are STONE MOUNTAIN whose shell is extremely hard, and ICE CREAM which 
is very sweet and juicy. COLES EARLY is another fine, early, round variety. The 
rind of CITRON is always popular for pickles and preserves, although the flesh is 
not edible. 
A useful but little known vegetable in the north is OKRA. It produces large 
green pods which are sliced in soups or stews and add a delicious taste. PERKINS 
LONG POD and WHITE VELVET are the two popular varieties. 
Nothing lends itself to such a wide variety of culinary use as ONIONS. For 
slicing, flavoring, boiling, baking, or for soups, no vegetable has as many addicts 
(or as many enemies) as the humble ONION. For rareripes or early bulbs for 
boiling, plant the “sets” or small onions which have not been allowed to grow. 
They are really ONION PLANTS and produce bulbs much earlier than seed. 
ONIONS may be classed according to their color—Red, Yellow and White, or 
by their shape—round or flat. The Red types are: SOUTHPORT RED GLOBE, 
which is round, and RED WETHERSFIELD—a large flat bulb. The Yellow types 
include a wide variety from EARLY YELLOW GLOBE, the earliest Onion grown, 
to YELLOW VALENCIA, which is much later and one of the largest Onions 
grown, belonging to the Sweet or Spanish types. Other popular yellows are SOUTH- 
PORT YELLOW GLOBE and YELLOW GLOBE DANVERS which are fine winter 
keepers, and YELLOW PRIZETAKER-~a very large globe shape. UTAH SWEET 
SPANISH and GOLDEN GLOBE are two new varieties and JAPANESE, which has 
a somewhat brownish skin, are rapidly increasing in popularity. The White Onions 
include WHITE PORTUGAL or SILVERSKIN which is a smallish Onion used for 
pickling or green bunching, while SOUTHPORT WHITE GLOBE is the standard 
for winter keeping and WHITE SWEET SPANISH is finest for large, mild Onions. 
Everyone is familiar with the CURLEY PARSLEY, popular for garnishing and 
seasoning. For the home, the compact plants of MOSS CURLED are probably 
best, but for markets, the vigorous growth and stout stems of PARAMOUNT are 
preferred. Few people, however, know of the PLAIN PARSLEY which has an 
even more pronounced flavor and may be dried for winter use, or of the HAMBURG 
type which makes roots like Parsnip and may also be stored for winter flavoring needs. 
OKRA is sown in rows and thinned to 6 to 8 inches. 
MUSKMELONS thrive on rich, warm, sandy loam and should be sown in raised bills spaced 
about 4 feet apart after all danger of frost is passed. Thin to about 3 plants in the bill. 
WATERMELONS do best in rich, sandy soils but well drained loam is also suitable. Do not 
plant until the ground is very warm and space in bills 6 to 8 feet each way thinning to 4 plants to 
each bill. 
ONIONS must be sown very early on fertile well drained soil in rows 1 to 1V, feet apart. Cover 
seed lightly and thin to about 2 inches. ONION SETS may be planted just as early as the ground 
can be worked in similar rows. 
PARSLEY is very slow to germinate but will grow on any kind of soil. Drill rather thickly as 
seed germination is fairly low. 
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