22 ROBSON 
QUALITY SEEDS, HALL, 
NEW YORK 
MUSKMELONS OR CANTALOUPES 
We are now limiting our list of melons to five varieties, the seed 
of which we are producing on our own farms under carefully con- 
Plants are grown in wooden veneer bands, 
transplanted in isolated fields, dusted and sprayed regularly to 
trolled conditions. 
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Gordon Jones is the one who will probably show 
you through our trial grounds when you visit us in 
the summer. He also handles vegetable breeding. 
Here we have the new Iroquois melon, resistant to 
Fusarium wilt. 
260 IROQUOIS: 90 days. More popular with 
growers every year, Iroquois, fusarium wilt 
resistant, is the only melon to grow on wilt 
infected soil. Fruits are of the popular 
Seneca Bender type, round to oval, about 
614 inches in diameter, with prominent ribs 
and good netting. Rind is firm and holds 
up well. Flesh deep orange color, of fine 
texture and excellent quality. Price below. 
Vitamins A b Cg 
saved for seed. 
261 SENECA DELICIOUS: 85 days. For 
roadside stands and home gardens Seneca 
Delicious is the best early melon to grow — 
ripens considerably earlier than Seneca 
Bender or Iroquois. Fruits are not as large 
as the old Delicious, far more uniform, well 
netted; flesh is thick, sweet, and of excellent 
quality. See prices below. 
Illustrated on page 3 
263 QUEEN OF COLORADO: 90 days. The 
result of a cross between Honey Rock and 
Hearts of Gold. Queen of Colorado com- 
bines the tough rind and flavor of Honey 
Rock with the thick flesh and texture of 
Hearts of Gold. Rind is pearly gray, faint- 
ly ribbed with sparse, coarse netting. See 
prices below. 
266 BENDER’S SURPRISE: 90 days. Fruits 
thick oval, 7 pounds, distinctly ribbed and 
covered with slight patches of coarse net- 
ting; skin hard and greenish yellow at ma- 
turity; flesh bright salmon, of delicious 
quality. See prices below. 
SPECIAL SELECTED SEED 
We have a limited amount of seed of 
Seneca Delicious, Seneca Bender and 
Iroquois taken from individual melons 
that were picked for special trueness to 
type; thickness, quality and flavor of 
flesh. We recommend this seed to com- 
mercial growers who have quality mar- 
kets. Oz. $1.35; 14 lb. $3.35; 1% Ib. $5.25; 
Ib. $10.00; 5 Ibs. $49.50; 10 lbs. $98.00. 
FOR STARTING MELONS 
We Recommend 
WOOD VENEER PLANT BANDS 
HOTKAPS AND HOTENTS 
See page 31 and 32 
WATERMELONS 
440 HONEY CREAM: 82 days. An extra 
early watermelon having delicious golden- 
yellow flesh and thin rind making it unique 
among watermelon varieties. ‘The fruits are 
large, nearly round and light green with 
darker green stripes. ‘The flesh is firm and 
of excellent quality. We highly recom- 
mend Honey Cream for the home garden 
and roadside stand. See prices below. 
Illustrated on page 1 
441 EARLY KANSAS: 85 days. Fruits large, 
nearly round, bright green, with broad 
wavy stripes of lighter green. Flesh bright 
red, thick, free from stringy heart, and of 
excellent flavor. Rind thin and tough. 
See prices below. 
Pkt 
260; IROQUOIS Wer es seni ie $.25. 
261 SENECA DELICIOUS .......... 25 
262 SENECA BENDER ............. 25 
263 QUEEN OF COLORADO ....... 25 
266 BENDER’S SURPRISE ......... .20 
Watermelon: Pkt. 
440 HONEY CREAM ................ $.20 
A41SHAR LY KANSAS eee iia ere 15 
A492 KLONDIKESS. Sees 15 
443 CONGO (Certified) ............... .20 
444 HYBRID DIXIE QUEEN .......... 1.00 
442 KLONDIKE: 90 days. A medium early 
variety, very popular in the Western States. 
Fruits large, oblong, slightly tapering to 
blossom end and medium sized. Flesh 
bright deep red, very sweet and tender. See 
prices below. 
443 CONGO (Florida Certified): 93 days. A 
new watermelon developed by the U.S. De- 
partment of Agriculture that promises to be 
of exceptional importance as a shipping va- 
riety. It is resistant to anthracnose. ‘The 
melons are similar in size to Garrison; the 
rind is very tough and dark green with 
darker green stripes. The flesh is very 
bright red, sweet and ripens well out to the 
rind. A little too late for the north. 
Oz, YLb. YLb. Lb. 5Lbs. 10Lbs. 
$.80 $2.00 $3.25 $6.00 $29.50 $58.00 
80 2.00 3.25 6.00 29.50 58.00 
80 2.00 3.25 6.00 29.50 58.00 
80 2.00 3.25 6.00 29.50 58.00 
70 1.70 Pah) 5.00 24.50 48.00 
Y,O1. Oz. YLb. YLb. Lb. 5 Lbs. 
$.35 $55 $1.35 $2.20 $4.00 $19.75 
25 40 95 1.60 2.85 14.00 
25 40 95 1.60 2.85 14.00 
35 50 1.25 2.10 5.80 18.75 
3.00 5.35 13.35 20.25 40.00 
21% lbs. will plant 1 acre 
protect them from insects and disease. 
ripened, picked, sorted and cut individually to determine the 
interior quality. Only melons that pass this rigid inspection are 
The melons are vine 
Seneca Bender Muskmelon is noted for uniform- 
ity of size, heavy netting of skin and fine quality. 
262 SENECA BENDER: 95 days. With crit- 
ical growers Seneca Bender is their choice 
for the best market melon to grow. ‘The 
melons which uniformly weigh from 5 to 6 
pounds have very heavy netting, prominent 
ribbing and high quality deep orange-yel- 
low flesh. Vines are vigorous and produc- 
tive. See prices below. 
If you want to win the prize for the largest water- 
melon grown in the North, plant Dixie Queen Hy- 
brid. 1950 wasn’t too good a melon year and yet 
this melon weighed 35 lbs. 
444 HYBRID DIXIE QUEEN: 82 days. We 
are happy to offer this year a brand new ex- 
tra early red fleshed Hybrid watermelon 
that is just what growers in the Northeast 
have been looking for. It matures as early 
or earlier than our popular Honey Cream. 
Hybrid Dixie Queen is a true first genera- 
tion (F,) hybrid combining earliness, yield, 
large size, red flesh and excellent flavor. 
Fruits are of the popular Dixie Queen type 
but are so much earlier that we highly re- 
commend it for Northern growers. Its thin _ 
tough rind makes it a fine shipping variety. 
See prices opposite. 
