WATERMELON (Continued) 

Cannon Ball or Florida Giant: A Most Promising High Yielding Variety for Florida. 
DUDE CREEK OR GARRISON. (New) (98 days.) This 
prized variety grows vigorously. Fruits are uniformly cylindri- 
cal in shape, very large, long, with a thin, tender rind. The 
color is white and green striped, the green stripes usually 
being broken. The shape and stripings are similar to those 
of the Georgia Rattlesnake variety, but it is an entirely dif- 
ferent melon. It has a very delicate flavor, sweet and tender 
meat, and grows to weigh 40 to 50 pounds, if the vines are 
pruned to one or two good shaped melons per plant, pulling 
off all other melons at least twice a week. Because of its high 
edible quality and large size it is rapidly gaining popularity 
and commanding premium prices. It is not, however, a ship- 
ping melon because of the brittle, easily broken rind, but is 
grown extensively for local markets. 
Pkt. 5c; 4 Ib. 30c; 1 Ib. $1.00 
FLORIDA MAMMOTH SWEET or TEXAS SWEET. 
(New) (95 days.) This new variety makes the largest size 
melons of any variety, under ideal growing conditions produc- 
ing melons 50 to 60 pounds or more in weight. The fruits are 
long, and have a medium thick rind, which is dark green in 
color, indistinctly striped with lighter green. The flesh is a 
bright, attractive red, very sweet and free of hard centers, 
and contains very few, exceedingly small, black seeds. Where 
unusually big sizes of high quality melons are desired this new 
variety has no superior. 
Pkt. 5c; %4 Ib. 45c; 1 lb. $1.50 
IMPROVED KLECKLEY’S SWEET OR WONDERMEL- 
ON. (95 days.) This is an early melon for the local market 
and home garden. The vines are sturdy and prolific and the 
green rind fruit is long, slightly constricted toward the stem 
end, with a very crisp, sweet and fine flesh. The rind is too 
thin to make a good shipper, but because of its high edible 
quality it is very popular for home use and for local market. 
Pkt. 5c; 4 Ib. 25c; 1 Ib. 75e 
CHILIAN WHITE SEEDED. (90 days.) This is a very 
early, round melon. The tough, thick rind is green with darker 
stripings. The bright red flesh is very delicious. Average 
weight is twenty pounds. Grown extensively in the West 
Indies for local use. 
Pkt. 5c; 44 lb. 30c; 1 Ib. $1.00 
The Standard of Quality in Florida for Over 30 Years 
CANNON BALL or FLORIDA GIANT. (92 days.) Our 
trials have indicated that this medium early variety is a valu- 
able addition for Florida melon growers. The vines are of a 
very vigorous growth and exceedingly heavy producer of 
very large, nearly round, solid dark-green skin melons, with 
thick rind and firm, rather coarse grained and fibrous, sweet, 
deep red, attractive flesh, with small black seeds. Very hardy, 
and withstands poor growing conditions better than other vari- 
eties. This variety is sometimes called black seeded Stone 
Mountain. It resembles Stone Mountain in form, but has a 
much darker green rind and grows to much larger size. Be- 
cause of the dark green rind, it is in great demand, always 
having a fresh appearance. Growing in favor by leaps and 
bounds among commercial melon growers in Florida. Also a 
desirable home garden variety. 
Pkt. 5c; 4 Ib. 30c; 1 Ib. $1.00 
KILGORE’S BRED-RITE STONE MOUNTAIN. (Im- 
proved Light Green Rind Strain.) (95 days.) This is an 
early melon and has become very popular in all the large Wa- 
termelon-growing districts. It is a large, round melon with 
deep red flesh that has a very delicious flavor. The medium 
hard, green rind makes it an excellent shipper. Vines are very 
prolific and the fruit has very few seeds, being almost all good, 
crisp, red meat clear to the rind, of delicious flavor and sweet- 
ness. Ours is the genuine, true to type, mingled light green 
color Stone Mountain. This strain has been developed and 
selected for uniformity and for high yields of true light green 
rind melons, free of white heart and solid meated throughout 
with few pure white seeds having a dark ring around the edge. 
There is a strain of large dark green rind Stone Mountain 
which has not been satisfactory. We have bred away from 
this type. 
Pkt. 5c; %4 Ib. 25c; 1 lb. 90c 
KILGORE’S IMPROVED WATSON. (100 days.) This is 
the most popular of all shipping melons. Cylindrical in shape, 
with medium dark green, thick, tough rind. The flesh is very 
firm, sweet, and has been bred especially for solid, deep red 
meat, entirely free of hard, white center, commonly called 
white heart. Our stock of this variety is absolutely pure and 
has been developed for high yielding qualities of uniformly 
true-to-type melons. 
Pkt. 5c; 4 Ib. 25c; 1 Ib. 75c 
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