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Muskmelon, Improved Rocky Ford 
@ IMPROVED ROCKY FORD 
(Netted Gem) 
(Days to Maturity, 88) 
Uses: Home and market gardens. 
Fruit: About 514 inches long and 5 inches in 
diameter—nearly round, heavily covered 
with a hard netting. Thick green flesh. 
@ 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 61% inches long and 534 
inches in diameter, heavily netted. Deep 
salmon flesh. 
@ 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. 
@ HEARTS OF GOLD (Improved) 
(Days to Maturity, 92) 
Uses: Popular with market growers; a good 
shipper. 
Fruit: Approximately 6 inches long, 51 inches 
in diameter. Almost round, well netted, 
greenish rind, very small seed cavity. 
Flesh thick, firm, deep golden brown. 
Watermelon 
CULTURE: Plant seed when weather is quite 
warm, 6 to 8 seeds in a hill, 6 to 8 feet apart each 
way. Cover 1% inch deep. One ounce will plant 
25 to 30 hills; 4 to 5 pounds per acre. 
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Watermelon, Congo 
® CONGO 
(Anthracnose Resistant) 
(Days to Maturity, 95) 
A NEW VARIETY FOR 1951 
Uses: Home and market gardens. Excellent 
for shipping. 
Fruit: Prolific, large, very tough rind. Oblong 
in shape. Sweet flesh, red heart. 
Watermelon, Dixie Queen 
® DIXIE QUEEN 
(Days to Maturity, 85) 
Usres: 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. 
e TOM WATSON, IMPROVED 
(Days to Maturity, 90) 
Uses: 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. 
SOUTHERN STATES COOPERATIVE 
