CANTALOUPE and MUSKMELON 
CULTURE: Plant as soon as soil has warmed up in 
the Spring, in hills about 5 feet by four feet apart. 
Use about six seeds per hill and thin out to two 
plants per hill after seedlings are well up. Canta- 
loupes grow best on a rich, light soil, which is kept 
watered, well-fertilized, and well-cultivated. 
VARIETIES:— 
Banana — A long banana-shaped melon, growing 
to 16 inches long and 5 inches thick, tapering at 
both ends. Rind is lemon-colored and smooth; flesh 
is pink and well-flavored. Popular home garden 
variety in some Southern states. 95 days. 
Benders Surprise — Dependable home garden va- 
riety weighing up to 8 lbs., large, thick-fleshed with 
rich flavor. Fruit is oblong with slight netting. 
Flesh is salmon pink. Skin is greenish-yellow. 90 
days. 
Delicious 51 — An early, wilt resistant cross of 
Iroquois and Sunrise. Excellent quality and flavor; 
not hard shelled enough for distant shipping, but 
fine local market melon. Salmon fleshed, fruit is 
6” by 54%”, well netted and ribbed. 82 days. 
Golden Delight — All American in 1952. Local 
market melon with rind too soft for distant ship- 
ping. Fruits 9” by 7”, moderate ribbing, well net- 
ted, thick, fine flavored salmon flesh. 92 days. 
Hales Best No. 36 — Choice shipping and local mar- 
ket variety of uniform size and shape, excellent 
quality. Average weight is 3 lbs. and fruits measure 
542 inches by 51% inches, oval, thick-fleshed, yel- 
low- green, heavily netted, salmon-fleshed. 85 days. 
Hales Best No. 936 — Similar to Hales 36 but larger, 
averaging almost 4 lbs. and measuring 614 inches 
by 5%4 inches. Same uniformly high quality, sal- 
mon fleshed. Excellent shipper. 88 days. 
Hales Triumph Jumbo — Large home garden and 
local market variety, weighing up to 6 lbs. and 
measuring 74% by 7 inches. Quality is fine but 
strain is not as uniform as 36 and 936. Flesh is 
salmon color, very thick and sweet. 90 days. 
Hearts of Gold — Large round type with excellent 
color and flavor, for home and market gardening. 
Fruits are gray green, ribbed, well netted, and mea- 
sure 6% to 5% inches, oval in shape. Flesh is deep 
golden, very sweet and aromatic. Not adapted to 
distant shipping. 95 days. 
Honey Dew Green Flesh — A distance shipper 
which keep well, but adapted to warmer climates 
and long growing seasons. Fruits are creamy white, 
hard, smooth, with tough rind. Flesh is thick, pale 
green, very sweet and juicy. Fruits measure about 
8 inches in diameter. 110 days. 
Honey Rock — Fine home garden and local market 
variety, resistant to cracking, of good quality and 
flavor. Fruits are about 514 by 5 inches, gray-green, 
coarsely netted. Salmon fleshed. 85 days. 
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