Please Read Carefully 
On the opposite pages we list forty-three 
varieties of Watermelon which we wiil grow 
for seed during the current year, with prices 
for seed. 
This list includes the best of all estab- 
lished varieties, and recent introductions. 
There are other good varieties, but in no 
way superior to those listed. Where the 
trade demands render it necessary we will 
grow them at comparable prices. 
Our planting stocks of the well-establish- 
ed popular varieties have a background of 
many years careful breeding and selection for 
uniformity, productiveness, hardiness and 
vigor of vine growth, with special emphasis 
on quality of fruit produced. 
We obtain the best possible planting 
Stocks of new introductions. Our Blacklee 
Stocks come direct from Florida Experiment 
Station, our Darlington Stocks from the 
originator. 
There has been a sharp advance in all 
production and operating costs since January 
1945. Shortage of farm labor has been re- 
lieved very little by termination of the war, 
and farm wages have advanced fifty per- 
cent. Essential supplies and replacements 
are very difficult to obtain when needed, and 
at much higher prices than a year ago. All 
this would warrant higher prices for the 
seed we grow. However, we recognize the 
obligation to share with all patriotic busi- 
ness in sincere efforts to curb further in- 
flation, and have therefore practically dupli- 
cated last year’s prices. 
