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red, not fine-grained, but crisp, sweet, and of fair quality ; 

 fruit frequently hollow at the centre ; seeds black. 



This variety is extensively grown in the Southern States 

 for exportation to the North, where it appears in the markets 

 about the beginning of August, and to some extent in July. 

 Many of the specimens are much less marked with stripes 

 and variegations than the true Carolina ; and some ship- 

 ments consist almost entirely of fruit of a uniform deep green 

 color, but of the form and quality of the Carolina. 



Downing mentions a sub-variety with pale yellow flesh 

 and white seeds. 



Citron "Water- Form nearly spherical ; size rather small, 

 melon. t ^ 



average specimens measuring six or seven 



inches in diameter ; color pale green, marbled with darker 

 shades of green ; flesh white, solid, tough, seedy, and very 



squashy and unpalatable in its 

 crude state. It ripens late in 

 the season, and will keep until 

 December. "It is employed in 

 the making of sweetmeats and 

 preserves, by removing the rind 

 or skin and seeds, cutting the 

 flesh into convenient bits, and 



Citron Watermelon. 



boiling in sirup which has been 



flavored with ginger, lemon, or some agreeable article. Its 

 cultivation is the same as that of other kinds of melons." 



New American Cydopcedia. 



Clarendon. Size larore : form oblong : skin mottled-^rav, 



W. I). JlrincMe. 



DARK-SPECKLED, with dark green, interrupted, longitudinal stripes, 

 irregular in their outline, and composed of a succession of 

 peninsulas and isthmuses ; rind thin, not exceeding half an 

 inch ; seed yellow, with a black stripe extending round the 



