186 CUCURBITACEOUS PLANTS. 



Like the Mountain Sweet, it is a favorite market sort. It 

 is not only of fine quality, but very productive. Seeds 

 russet-brown. 



Mountain A large, long, oval variety, often contracted 



Sweet. 



towards the stem in the form of ^ neck ; skin 



striped and marbled with different shades of green; rind 



Mountain Sweet Watermelon. 



rather thin, measuring scarcely half an inch in thickness ; 

 flesh scarlet, and solid quite to the centre ; seeds pale russet- 

 brown, but often of greater depth of color in perfectly ma- 

 tured specimens of fruit. 



A popular and extensively cultivated variety, quite hardy, 

 productive, and of good quality. " For many years it was 

 universally conceded to be the best market sort cultivated 

 in the Middle States, but of late has lost some of the proper- 

 ties that recommended it so highly to favor. This deteriora- 

 tion has probably been owing to the influence of pollen from 

 inferior kinds grown in its vicinity." 



OdelPs Large A remarkably large variety, the fruit some- 

 W. D. BrincJde. times weighing sixty pounds ; form round ; 

 skin gray, with fine green network spread over its uneven 

 surface ; rind nearly three fourths of an inch in thickness ; 

 seeds large, grayish-black, and not numerous ; flesh pale 



