CANTALOUPE 
Plant 1 to 2 pounds per acre. 
In the garden plant 1 packet to 50 feet of row for a family 
of 3 or 4 people. 
Smith’s Perfect (Florida Golden Dew) Cantaloupes 
Culture. General cultural requirements, diseases and insects 
and their control, similar to those of cucumber. (See page 16.) 
Plant in hills 4 to 5 feet apart, dropping 5 to 6 seeds to a hill. 
Place fertilizer, 4-7-5 mixture, around the hill and make second 
application when the vines start to run. Thin out to two plants 
to the hill when 4 inches high. May be planted in 5 foot 
rows, thinning plants to 2 feet between every 2 plants in the 
row. For an earlier melon crop and to get ahead of the melon 
worms, use Hotkaps. (See page 75). 
The number of days after each variety represents the time 
from seed planting to first picking under average spring con- 
ditions in Florida. 
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SMITH’S PERFECT (Florida Golden Dew or Rock Melon). 
(90 days.) This melon was originated in the West Indies. It 
makes a good, strong, vigorous vine growth, with thick, hard, 
tough upturned leaves. The tough leaves withstand wind and 
cold damage. This variety is very resistant to downy mildew 
disease commonly called blight or rust, and also resists aphids. 
It is a very good commercial type, making medium size fruits 
(averaging about 4 Ibs. each), very heavy for their size, round 
in shape but slightly flattened at the stem and blossom ends, 
covered with a fine netting, free of ribbing, with a tough rind, 
making it a good shipper and market melon. The fruits have 
a greenish rind, which upon ripening turns to a beautiful 
greenish-yellow. As the fruits ripen they produce a delicious 
melon odor. For market, it is best to harvest them a little 
on the green side just as they begin to turn yellow. The flesh 
is firm, very thick, with a small seed cavity, of attractive deep 
orange or salmon color, and has a most delicious flavor. No 
other cantaloupe or muskmelon can compare with this variety 
in delicious edible quality. 
Pkt. 10c; oz. 30c; 4 Ib. 85c; 1 Ib. $3.00; 5 to 25 Ibs. $2.90 per Ib. 
HALE’S BEST, JUMBO STRAIN. (78 days.) A large fruited 
strain of Hale’s Best, grown very extensively in Georgia and 
other southern states. Fruits are oval in shape, showing 
some trace of ribbing, with heavy coarse netting, and average 
about 4 to 5 pounds in weight. Flesh thick, with relatively 
small seed cavity, deep orange in color, very sweet and of 
excellent quality. 
Pkt. 10c; oz. 20c; % Ib. 60c; 1 Ib. $2.00; 5 to 25 Ibs. $1.90 per Ib. 
HALE’S BEST, No. 36. (75 days.) An improved strain of 
Hale’s Best, developed for uniformity in shape and complete 
netting. Fruits are round in shape, with very heavy, coarse 
netting, and average about three pounds in weight. Flesh 
thick, with small seed cavity, deep salmon in color, very sweet 
and of fine quality. Excellent for shipping. 
Pkt. 10c; 0z. 20c; 14 Ib. 60c; 1 Ib. $2.00; 5 to 25 Ibs. $1.90 per Ib. 
GEORGIA 47 (Mildew Resistant) (New). (72 days.) This new 
downy mildew and powdery mildew resistant variety is very 
early, exceedingly prolific, with firm, thick flesh of golden 
orange color, very sweet. The fruits are generally too small for 
a shipping cantaloupe, and have a tendency to produce an un- 
attractive rough swelling at the blossom end, but for home 
garden and local markets this disease resistant variety is most 
highly recommended. For a commercial shipping melon in 
order to develop desirable size (2 to 2% lbs.) and eliminate the 
blossom end bulge or button, this variety requires lots of 
water by irrigation and heavy fertilization. Under these con- 
ditions it makes an enormous yield very early, of uniform, 
attractive, round to slightly flattened, well netted, good size 
melons of excellent edible and shipping quality. Seed supply 
extremely limited. 
Pkt. 10c; 02. 35c; 14 Ib. $1.00; 1 Ib. $3.50; 5 to 25 Ibs. $3.40 per Ib. 
CAULIFLOWER 
Sow 4 ounces in seedbed to plant an acre. 
In the garden sow one packet in protected seedbed for thirty 
plants to set 50 feet for a family of 3 or 4 people. 
Culture. We recommend starting plants in well prepared seed- 
beds where conditions can be provided for continuous rapid 
growth. A cauliflower plant which has once been checked or 
stunted in growth will never produce a large, well formed head. 
Plant in seedbeds from September to December and cultivate 
the same as cabbage, spacing 24% to 3 feet between rows and 
18 to 24 inches in the row. Cauliflower needs a rich soil and 
plenty of moisture. Just as soon as the head develops to the 
size of a walnut, it is very important to draw the outer leaves 
over the head and tie with soft cord to produce attractive, 
pure white, solid heads. 
Our cauliflower seed is grown in black rot free territory. 
The number of days in parentheses after each variety indi- 
cates the number of days to produce edible heads from setting 
out plants in the field or garden. 
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SUPER SNOWBALL. (55 days.) This is a very early maturing 
strain of the Snowball type, which, because of the curled 
formation of the leaves over the head protects it from the sun 
and from freezing. The dwarf, compact plants are strong, 
vigorous, with many short, large, round, broad, heavy, spread- 
ing light green leaves, and a short stout stem. The heads are 
broad, large, smooth, solid, pure white in color, and exceed- 
ingly uniform; under proper growing conditions, producing 
over 90% grade one heads. Highly recommended as an early 
winter crop, to mature in cold weather. This variety is suscepti- 
ble to “whiptail” and should be grown in alkaline soils with 
a high pH to avoid this trouble. 
Pkt. 25c; 14 oz. $1.00; oz. $1.75; 14 Ib. $5.25; 1 Ib. $20.00 
SNOWDRIFT. (62 days.) This is one of the surest headers 
known, and is especially well adapted to withstand the hot, 
humid climatic conditions prevalent in Florida. The vigorous 
plants grow larger and taller than Snowball, are more compact 
and upright in growth with long, tall, rather narrow, elliptical 
shape, erect growing, dark green leaves, which protect the head 
or curd in its early growth. The large, snow-white, attractive 
heads are very deep. Heavy and firm or solid, even under rela- 
tively hot, humid growing conditions, making this an ideal 
variety for early spring production in Florida. Very free of 
leafy and ricy heads, and very resistant to “whiptail” disease. 
Pkt. 25c; 2 oz. $1.00; oz. $1.75; 14 Ib. $5.25; 1 Ib. $20.00 
Snowdrift Cauliflower 
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For Best Results Plant Kilgore’s “Bred-Rite” Seeds 
