CANTALOUPE and MUSKMELON 
Plant 1 to 2 pounds per acre. 
In the garden plant 1 packet in 10 hills for a family of 3 or 4 people. 
CuLturRE. General cultural requirements, diseases and in- 
sects and their control, similar to those of cucumber. (See 
page 16.) Should have rather high, light soil. Plant in hills 
4 by 5 feet apart, dropping 8 to 10 seeds to a hill. Place fertil- 
izer in the hill and make second application when the vines 
start to run. Thin out to two plants to the hill when 4 inches 
high. For an earlier melon crop and to get ahead of the melon 
worms, use Hotkaps. (See page 54.) Treatment of seed be- 
fore planting with Semesan is advisable. (See page 51.) 
Prices quoted are postpaid. 
Write for special prices on larger quantities. 
COOPER’S SWEETHEART. (85 days.) The features which 
recommend this melon to Florida and other sub-tropical sections 
are its disease and insect resistance, its prolificacy and its 
good shipping qualities. The vines are disease resistant and 
bear a great many small sized melons, over a long season. The 
fruits are about the size of Rocky Fords, averaging four inches 
in diameter and weighing about two pounds, are perfectly round 
in shape, covered with a fine netting, are exceedingly hard and 
firm, resisting melon worms better than other varieties, and 
making them ideal for packing and shipping to distant markets. 
The flesh is a beautiful deep orange, with an exceedingly sweet 
flavor. 
Pkt. 5c; oz. 20c; 4% Ib. 50c; 1 Ib. $1.75 
BANANA. (95 days.) Grown extensively on the lower East 
Coast and on the Keys of Florida where it does exceptionally 
well. Fruits are smooth and slender, averaging 14 inches in 
length and 3 to 5 inches in diameter, weighing about 8 pounds, 
tapering at both ends, shaped somewhat as the name indicates. 
Lemon-colored skin when mature, with very attractive, thick, 
pink, or salmon-colored flesh of delicious eating quality. 
Pkt. 5c; oz. 15e; %4 Ib. 45c; 1 Ib. $1.50 
HALE’S BEST, Improved No. 36. (75 days.) An improved 
strain of Hale’s Best, developed for uniformity in shape and 
complete netting, and with sutures or ribs eliminated. Fruits 
are round in shape, with very heavy, coarse, attractive netting, 
and average about three pounds in weight. Flesh exceedingly 
thick, with small seed cavity, deep salmon in color, very sweet 
and of exceedingly fine quality. The earliest and best ship- 
ping cantaloupe for Florida. 
Pkt. 5c; oz. 15¢e; 14 Ib. 45c; 1 Ib. $1.50 

Hale’s Best, Improved No. 36 Cantaloupe 


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Smith’s Perfect or Yellow Dew Dessert Melon 
SMITH’S PERFECT OR YELLOW DEW DESSERT 
MELON. (New) (90 days.) At last we have found in 
this dessert melon, which was originated in the West Indies 
and developed in Florida, a variety that possesses about 
everything desired for Florida growing conditions. A good 
vigorous grower, disease-resistant, especially to downy mildew 
commonly called blight, and a very good commercial type, 
making medium size (averaging about four pounds each) 
fruits, very heavy for their size, perfectly round in shape, 
covered with a uniform fine netting, free of ribbing, with 
a thick rind, not subject to cracking even in rainy weath- 
er, making it an ideal shipper and market melon. The fruits 
have a greenish rind, which upon ripening turns to a beau- 
tiful greenish-yellow. As the fruits ripen they produce a deli- 
cious melon odor. The flesh is very thick, of attractive deep 
orange color, which has a most delicious flavor. This melon 
can be grown throughout the summer during the rainy season 
in Florida, and still produces an abundant crop of ideal, edible 
quality fruits. During the past couple of years this variety 
has been successfully grown for the Tampa, Florida, and other 
local markets, as well as for shipment to New York. An ideal 
melon for the Florida home garden, for local market and for 
shipment to distant markets. Far superior in edible quality 
to any known variety of cantaloupe or muskmelon for Florida 
production, and readily sells in competition with high-priced 
California Honeydews and Persian melons. 
Seed supply extremely limited. 
Pkt. 10c; 0z. 35e; %4 Ib. $1.00 
KILGORE’S ORANGE FLESHED ROCKY DEW. (90 
days.) This melon is especially well adapted to climatic con- 
ditions in Florida and the West Indies where it originated. 
The plant is vigorous in growth and disease resistant. The 
fruits are medium to large, weighing three to six pounds, 
slightly elongated, ribbed and quite heavily netted. The rind 
is quite firm, dark green in color turning to a beautiful yellow- 
ish cast when ripe. The flesh is a beautiful deep golden orange 
color, very thick, juicy, sweet, with a delicious flavor. 
Seed supply limited. 
Pkt. 5c; oz. 25c; 4% Ib. 60c; 1 Ib. $2.00 
WHAT WILL YOUR HARVEST BE? 
The answer to that question depends principally on the kind of seeds you plant. The Kilgore Seed Company’s Experi- 
mental Farm at Palmetto, Florida, is a great help in providing the right kind of seeds for Florida. 
Samples of different stocks of Kilgore’s Bred-Rite Seeds are planted from time to time in Kilgore’s Proving Grounds 
on the Kilgore Experimental Farm at Palmetto. There are also included samples from other dealers and seed growers to 
compare with Kilgore stocks. This shows just how Kilgore’s strains and varieties compare with others growing side by 
side under identically the same conditions in Florida. It enables the company to discover and develop new or improved 
stocks and varieties of distinct merit for Florida conditions. 
The company has employed the services of a well-trained and experienced plant breeder who supervises all of this 
work. Modern, scientific breeding methods are employed both in maintaining and improving seed stocks. New products 
of our breeding program are carefully tested under Florida conditions, and superior stocks are then sent to our seed 
production fields in the north and west. What more could be done to provide the seeds for the Florida grower? 
You have a cordial invitation to inspect Kilgore’s Breeding or Experimental Farm at Palmetto, Florida. Just call at 
the Kilgore Seed Company’s store in Palmetto, and a Kilgore employee will guide you over the farm, and explain what 
is being done by this pioneer Florida seed company to provide Florida growers with better seeds. 
For Best Results Plant Kilgore’s ‘““Bred-Rite”’ Seeds 
