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A fine field of Hale’s Best, Burrell’s Jumbo. The melons are piled 
as shown in the picture and then graded and seeded. 
Hale's Best, Burrell's Jumbo 85 days. The original 
stock . of Hale’s Best 
produced some very large fine melons that were exceptionally 
well adapted to roadside market selling and for bulk hauling in 
trucks. They were so extremely large, however, that they were 
hardly as well suited to packing in crates as some of the smaller 
types. By critical selection we have produced a uniform type 
of this having a distinct stripe or suture running from stem to 
blossom end. It is a big melon; the average weight from our seed 
fields being about 4% pounds each, which would mean that the 
melons pack nine or even less to the Jumbo flat crate. Well netted 
between the distinct suture, practically no ribs. Flesh is thick, 
deep salmon, flavor sweet and of fine eating quality. Because of 
its firm flesh it holds up and keeps longer than any other H. B. 
STOCK SEED. (Pkt., 10c) (0z., 20c) (4 Ib., 60c) Clb., $2.00) 
(5 Ibs., $8.80) prepaid 
No. 1 SEED. (Pkt., 5c) (0z., 15¢) (% Ib., 40c) (b., $1.50) 
38 (5 Ibs., $6.60) prepaid 
Improved H. B. No. 36; Better Than Ever Before (listed page 39) 
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