. Price list and descriptive catalogue : choice seeds for home and market gardens. Nursery stock Colorado Rocky Ford Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. 28 D. V. BurrelFs Choice Seeds, Rocky Ford, coio. The Rocky Ford Cantaloupe is still better known than the watermelon as it is shipped to all parts of the United States. There are but few growers, however, who have taken the proper care to keep up the grade of their melons and as a result there are many who are growing mel- ons that are "run ; There is no fruit that will as easily permit being graded up a
. Price list and descriptive catalogue : choice seeds for home and market gardens. Nursery stock Colorado Rocky Ford Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. 28 D. V. BurrelFs Choice Seeds, Rocky Ford, coio. The Rocky Ford Cantaloupe is still better known than the watermelon as it is shipped to all parts of the United States. There are but few growers, however, who have taken the proper care to keep up the grade of their melons and as a result there are many who are growing mel- ons that are "run ; There is no fruit that will as easily permit being graded up as the canta- loupe under careful and intelligent selection, and no truit sooner runs down in quality"" if neglected. As sure as it is necessary for the breeder of thoroughbred stock to select only the best individuals and properly care for them, so it is necessary for the one who wishes to make a success of growing cantaloupes to select the proper seed. "Blood will tell," and it is a mistake to select the good specimens from a field where most of the melons are poor, as the melon selected may have been fertilized from a blossom on a vein that produced only cull*. The only seed to plant is that from a field where all of the melons were even sized, well netted, of good flavor, and of the proper color. Some melons are yellow in a few hours after they are ripe and others will retain the grayish color for several days after ripening. It is this last kind that sell and the only kind to plant. Such are the melons I offer. Try them. OKEA This is an annual from the West Indies, cultivated for its green seed pods, which are used in soups or stewed and served like asparagus, making gumbo soup. The pods when young and tender should be sliced in sections, strung on a thread and hung up in the shade to cure like dried apples; they can be used for soup at any time. One ounce will plant 100 hills. Culture.—Sow the seed thinly in dry, warm soil, in shallow drills two feet
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