MUSKMELON or 
CANTALOUPE 
If you can possibly spare the 
space be sure to make way for 
a few hills of melons. They are 
the dessert of the garden, and 
even though potatoes might pro- 
duce more actual food to the 
area, you still need the melons 
for garden-thrill and appetite 
pleasure. 
336 PRIDE OF WISCONSIN— 
Splendid newer sort, doing well 
in the north, and of such rugged 
vigor that it will carry a good 
crop even under adverse condi- 
tions. Round fruits about 6% 
inches through, unusually heavy 
because of small seed cavity. 
Flesh deep orange, sugar-sweet, 
juicy, rich in flavor. Firm, blue-gray rind, well-netted. 
Illustrated opposite. Pkt. 10c; 1 oz. 25c; %4 lb. 75. 
332 LAKE CHAMPLAIN—An extra early melon of very 
good eating quality. Medium size, well-netted, sweet golden 
orange flesh. Fine for northern areas, or first early any- 
where. Pkt. 10¢c; 1 oz. 25c; 14 Ib. T5c. 
331 MILWAUKEE MARKET—A rather large, fairly early 
melon of exceedingly high average quality. Very thick, 
fine-grained, salmon flesh, rich, melting, honey-sweet. 
Fruits average about 8-inch diameters. A fancy home 
garden sort, shell not hard enough for market. Pkt. 15c; 
1 oz. 30c; 44 Ib. 95c. 
340 PERSIAN—Very large fruits, to ten pounds, heavily 
netted globes. Thick, orange-pink meat of luscious sweet- 
ness. In the north, it needs early starting. Pkt. 15e; 
3 pkts. for 40c. 
334 BANANA—Yellow-skinned fruits without netting, in 
approach to shape of a giant Banana, perhaps 20 inches 
long by 4 thick. Salmon flesh of rather aromatic sweet- 
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330 BENDER’S SURPRISE—Ribbed oval fruits to ten 
pounds, netted, yellow without, rich orange within. Flavor 
is excellent, meat very thick and juicy, often superlatively 
sweet. Pkt. 10c; 1 oz. 25c; % Ib. 75c. 
337 FORDHOOK—Extra early with small flattened fruits 
of concentrated spicy sweetness. Orange meat. Pkt. 10c; 
iL ozs. 25e: 
338 EXTRA EARLY HACKENSACK—Our earliest green- 
meat, with thick flesh, juicy and sweet. Quite large fruits, 
well-netted. An easy-to-grow variety. Pkt. 10c; 1 oz. 25c. 
333 ROCKYFORD or NETTED GEM—tThe original variety, 
long known for flavor excellence. Green meat. Silvery 
netted oval fruits, to 2 Ibs. Pkt. 10c; 1 oz. 20c; %4 Ib. 65c. 
335 HONEY DEW—A distinctive high quality melon, with 
green, juicy, very sweet meat. Outside ivory, smooth. 
Must be given early start and warm position to succeed in 
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380 OKRA 
Grown for the young, tender seed-pods, used in gumbo 
soups, stews, relishes and other dishes, for their smooth 
thickening qualities and rich flavor. May also be simply 
boiled and served with butter. Easily grown. Variety 
DWARF PROLIFIC. Pkt. 10c; 1 oz. 15c; % Ib. 45c. 
PARSLEY 
It will grow in full sun, or tolerate some light shade. 
You can even grow it in pots in a winter window. Cul- 
tural directions in leaflet with seed shipments. 
425 DWARF EMERALD CURLED—Dark green leaves, in- 
tensely crisped and curled. For piquant flavoring or dec- 
orative garnishing. Pkt. 10c; 1 oz. 20c; % Ib. 60c. 
426 HAMBURG ROOT PARSLEY—-Grown for the thick 
roots, like smaller Parsnips, these used in soups and stews, 
or cooked in various ways of other root vegetables. Flavor 
quite distinctive. Plain leaves, used for flavoring. Pkt. 
10c; 1 oz. 20ce. 


PEPPERS, Mostly Sweet 
They yield much in _ small 
space, and even the _ smallest 
garden should have a few plants. 
447 KING OF THE NORTH— 
In our plantings at Old Orchard 
Farm this shows as by far the 
earliest good Sweet Pepper. The 
fruits are large, above average 
of most sorts, to 7 or 8 inches 
length by 38% to 4 _ through. 
Flesh is medium thick, unusually 
brittle and crisp. <A particularly 
desirable sort for stuffing and 
baking. Plants are of dwarf, 
branching habit, but enormous 
yielders. Pkt. 10c; % oz. 40c. 
472 WINDSOR ‘“A’?—An excel- 
lent early, but not as quick as 
King of the North, nor is it 
quite as prolific, though yield is fully up to that of most 
other sorts. Credit it, though, with fruits that are 
smoother, more even, and with meat that is thicker, often 
fully as thick as in California Wonder, just as sweet and 
juicy, too. Pkt. 10c; 1% oz. 35ce; 1 oz. 60c. 
473 CALIFORNIA WONDER — Smooth, glossy crimson 
fruits of blocky form, very large and heavy. We believe 
this to be the thickest meated Pepper offered anywhere, and 
flavor is of the best, always sweet, juicy, piquant. Heavy 
cropper. Illustrated below, Pkt. 10c; % oz. 40c; 1 oz. 
75c; 14 Ib. $2.50. 
474 SWEET- 
MEAT GLORY— 
Best of the Pi- 
mientos. Smooth 
heart - shaped 
fruits of bright 
red, with sweet, 
mild, thick. flesh. 
PKte lOc 22-07: 
35c. 
476 SWEET BA- 
NANA—A_ Sweet 
Pepper with long 
tapering fruits 
thatee,trste:=turn 
banana = yellow, 
then orange, fi- 
nally shining red. 
Plants are great- 
ly prolific, and 
exceedingly hand- 
some, for they 
are packed with 
farsi ctasee tena le 
stages of ripen- 
ing, green, yel- 
low, orange and 
red at one time. 
Worth growing 
as an ornamental. 
A desirable salad 
or garnishing 
sort, and partic- 
ularly good for canning, the shape of the fruit lending 
itself to easy, close packing. Fine sweet flavor. Quite 
early. Pkt. 15c; % oz. 45c. 
475 LONG RED CAYENNE—A hot one, used in making 
pungent sauces, relishes, in pickling and the like. Can be 
dried. Long, slender, scarlet fruits. Pkt. 10c; % oz. 35e. 
530 RHUBARB or PIEPLANT 
First fruit of spring, though technically not a fruit at 
all. The succulent, tartly juicy stems are stewed for 
“sauce’’, made into pies, or into various other delicious 
desserts. We offer seeds saved from our own strain of 
thin-skinned, heavy stemmed, fine-flavored red Rhubarb. 
Sow early. Seedlings start yielding third year. Pkt. 10c; 
1 oz. 20c; % Ib. 70ce. 


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