WATERMELON 
Plant 1 pound per acre. 
In the garden plant 1 packet to 75 feet of row for a family of 3 or 4 people. 
CULTURE. Watermelons may be grown on nearly all kinds of 
Florida soils that have good drainage, but rolling, sandy pine 
land is preferred. In general, new land is best for this crop in 
order to avoid diseases. The field should be checked off, plant- 
ing in hills 8 feet apart each way or 7 by 9 feet. Seed should 
be planted % to 1 inch deep, and plants should be thinned to 
2 or 3 plants per hill when they are still small and when all 
danger of frost is past, later thinning to 1 plant per hill for best 
results. The most successful growers apply a 4-7-5 fertilizer 
mixture about a week before planting the seed. A second appli- 
cation may be made if necessary when the vines begin to run. 
The fertilizer should be worked into the hills before planting at 
the rate of two pounds per hill, or 800 pounds per acre. The 
first planting of watermelons for an early crop in Florida should 
be made about January Ist and successive plantings may be 
made up to about the middle of February in Central and South 
Florida. Plantings in North Florida are made 2 or 3 weeks 
later. For earlier melons use Hotkaps. (See page 71.) 
The leaf, stem and fruit disease of watermelons, anthracnose 
as well as gummy stem blight, the spores of which diseases are 
frequently present on melon seed, are killed by treating the 
seed with Spergon. It weather conditions are favorable for 
blight and anthracnose, spray or dust with Copper Compound A, 
Fermate, Spergon or Dithane. (See pages 53, 55, 57 and 63.) 
For pollination of watermelons, see second paragraph under 
cucumber culture—page 16. 
The number of days after each variety indicates the time 
from seed planting to ripe fruit. 
Prices quoted are postpaid. 
Write for special prices on larger quantities. 
DIXIE QUEEN (White Seeded). (90 days.) This variety 
possesses all the good qualities demanded by commercial 
growers, namely, size, color, flavor, shipping quality and high 
yield. The almost round fruits average 32 pounds. The flesh is 
of a most attractive, rich, bright-red color. It is solid, with very 
few small white seeds. The outer skin is light green, striped and 
blotched with dark green. The rind, although thin, is tough and 
does not bruise easily, making it an ideal shipping melon. It is 
one of the sweetest-flavored and highest quality melons grown. 
This variéty is sometimes, but quite erroneously called “White 
Seeded Cuban Queen.” Because of its many desirable features, 
Dixie Queen has become one of the leading, standard com- 
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mercial varieties of Florida, and because of its high edible 
quality it is also grown extensively for home use. 
Pkt. 10c; oz. 20c; 14 Ib. 50c; 1 Ib. $1.75 
5 to 25 lbs. $1.65 per Ib. 
STONE MOUNTAIN (Improved Light Green Rind 
Strain.) (92 days.) A large, round melon with deep red flesh 
that has a very delicious flavor. 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 sweetness. Ours is the 
genuine, true to type, mingled light green color Stone Moun- 
tain. 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 relatively few pure 
white seeds having a dark ring around the edge. 
Pkt. 10c; oz. 15e; %4 Ib. 45e; 1 Ib. $1.50 
5 to 25 Ibs. $1.40 per Ib. 
‘BLACKLEE (Wilt-Resistant).(100 days.) This wilt-resistant 
variety was originated, developed and released by the Florida 
Agricultural Experiment Station. Blacklee was developed: by 
Dr. M. N. Walker from a cross of Leesburg and Hawkesbury. 
This variety grows vigorously, is very resistant to Fusarium 
Wilt disease, and produces a very abundant crop of uniform, 
medium size, elongated, blocky, very symmetrical and smooth, 
attractive appearing melons with a dark rich green colored 
rind, which rind is very thin but hard, tough and of good carry- 
ing quality, making it a good long distance shipper and good 
keeper. The flesh, which runs within one-half inch of the out- 
side of the melon, is an attractive bright red with medium size 
black seed, of excellent flavor and fine texture and delicious, 
crisp, sweet eating quality. The melons cut solid, are free from 
stringiness, and have a delicate, distinctive flavor. The melons 
will, under good growing conditions, average 34 pounds, an 
ideal size for shipping. They run very uniform and are excep- 
tionally heavy for their size. By pruning to two melons per 
vine, the size can be somewhat increased, and the melons will 
ripen several days earlier. In addition to disease resistance, 
this variety possesses about all the desirable characteristics one 
could wish for in an ideal shipping, local market and home 
garden variety. Sometimes, but wrongfully so, called Improved 
Wilt-Resistant Watson. 
Pkt. 10c; oz. 20c; %4 lb. 50c; 1 Ib. $1.75 
5 to 25 Ibs. $1.65 per Ib. 

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For Best Results Plant Kilgore’s “Bred-Rite” Seeds 
