Why the Burrell Family are good seedsmen. They grow up in the business and learn pride 
of product that can best be developed in this way. Some of our founder's great grandsons 
watching Pat Head seeding selected cantaloupes (Burrell's Jumbo). Pat has been working 
with us in cantaloupe improvement for more than 30 years 
Burrell’s Jumbo 85 days. The original stock of Hale’s Best 
produced some very large fine melons that 
were exceptionally well adapted to roadside market selling and for 
bulk hauling in trucks. They were so extremely large, however, 
that they were hardly as well suited to packing in crates as some 
of the smaller types. By critical selection we produced a uniform 
type of this having a distinct stripe or suture running from stem 
to blossom end, It is a big melon; the average weight from our 
seed fields being about 44% pounds each, which would mean that 
the melons pack nine or even less to the Jumbo flat crate. Well 
netted between the distinct suture, practically no ribs. Flesh is 
thick, deep salmon, flavor sweet and of fine eating quality. Because 
of its firm flesh it holds up and keeps longer than H. B. 
STOCK SEED: (Pkt. 10c) (0z. 25c) (% Ib. 75c) (1b. $2.20) postpaid. 
Saved from select melons for the most critical planters. 
Not postpaid (Ib. $1.90) (10 Ibs. @ $1.80) (100 Ibs. @ $1.70) 
No. 1 SEED: (Pkt. 10c) (0z. 20c) (% Ib. 60c) (Ib. $1.70) postpaid. 
Saved from good melons grown from our Select Stock Seeds. 
Not postpaid (lb. $1.40) (10 Ibs. @ $1.30) (100 Ibs. @ $1.20) 
- Hale’s Best, Burrell’s Jumbo -Use Burrell’s Jumbo, 
our new name for this 
variety because different stocks are being offered by some under 
the name Jumbo Hale’s Best. 
| 
: From Texas: My good friend. . . tells me he has been 
: ordering seed from you for years and years 
: and they are the best that can be procured anywhere. He gave 
| me one of your old catalogs, and insisted that | write you for a 
: late catalog for 1954 plantings. A customer like Mr. . . . that 
speaks so highly of a product is a mighty good advertisement, 
: and | want to buy some or all of my seed from you for 1954 
| planting. | only use about 3 acres and | naturally want all | can 
get from those 3 acres. | will appreciate very much, one of your 
late catalogs and assure you of an order. 
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