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@ HALE’S BEST NO. 936 
(Days to Maturity, 87) 
Uses: Truckers, market gardens, and roadside 
markets. Slightly larger than Hale’s Best 
No. 36. 
Fruit: Approximately 614 inches long and 534 
inches in diameter, heavily netted. Deep 
salmon flesh. 
@ HEARTS OF GOLD (Improved) 
(Days to Maturity, 92) 
Uses: Popular with market growers; a good 
shipper. 
Fruit: Approximately 6 inches long, 514 inches 
in diameter. Almost round, well netted, 
greenish rind, very small seed cavity. 
Flesh thick, firm, deep golden brown. 
@ HEARTS OF GOLD 
(Morrill’s Strain) 
(Days to Maturity, 88) 
Uses: Market gardeners and truckers. 
Fruit: Very similar to regular Hearts of Gold 
but slightly larger. 
Watermelon 
CULTURE: Plant seed when weather is quite 
warm, 6 to 8 seeds in a hill, 6 to 8 feet apart each 
way. Cover 14 inch deep. One ounce will plant 
25 to 30 hills; 4 to 5 pounds per acre. 
® DIXIE QUEEN 
(Days to Maturity, 85) 
Usrs: Shippers and home gardeners. 
Fruit: Almost round, with squarish ends, rind 
thin and tough, light green with dark 
green stripes. Scarlet flesh of good 
texture. Weighs about 30 pounds. Seeds 
very small and white. 

Watermelon, Dixie Queen 
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Watermelon, Improved Kleckley Sweet 
@ IMPROVED KLECKLEY SWEET 
(Days to Maturity, 85) 
Ussrs: Widely used for home gardens and loca) 
markets. 
Fruit: Large, cylindrical in shape, rind thin, 
deep dark green. Fine-textured flesh, 
sparkling red in color. Weighs about 35 
pounds. Seeds white. 
e IMPROVED GARRISON 
(Days to Maturity, 95) 
Uses: Excellent shipper, also for home and 
market garden. 
Fruit: Large and elongated, blunt ends with 
pale and dark green stripes. Flesh red 
and sweet, of excellent quality. 
® DUDE CREEK 
(Days to Maturity, 95) 
Usrs: Extensively for home gardens. 
Fruir: Large and cylindrical, rind thin and 
tender with irregular longitudinal dark 
and pale green stripes. Flesh sweet and 
of good eating quality. Weighs about 
40 pounds. 
e TOM WATSON, IMPROVED 
(Days to Maturity, 90) 
Users: An old favorite among the shipping 
sorts. This improved strain with its big, 
full red heart, is exceptionally fine. It is 
very prolific and the fruits are unusually 
uniform in shape and quality. 
Fruit: Very large, cylindrical in shape, rind 
very tough and elastic, darker green than 
old strain, slightly veined. Flesh firm, 
rather coarse, free from core, delicious, 
deep bright red color. Weighs about 40 
pounds. Seeds brown with white mot- 
tling. 
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