188 CUCURBITACEOUS PLANTS. 



If kept from freezing, or from dampness and extreme cold, 

 the Pie-melon may be preserved until March. 



Ravenscroft. Size large ; form oblong ; skin dark green, 



W.D.Brinckle. 



faintly striped and marked with green of a 

 lighter shade, and divided longitudinally by sutures from an 

 inch and a quarter to two inches apart ; rind not more than 

 half an inch in thickness ; seed cream-color, tipped with 

 brown at the eye, and having a brown stripe around the 

 edge ; flesh fine red, commencing abruptly at the rind, and 

 extending to the centre ; flavor delicious and sugary ; quality 

 "best." 



This valuable watermelon originated with Colonel A. G. 

 Sumner, of South Carolina. 



Souter. Size large, sometimes weighing twenty or 



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thirty pounds ; form oblong, occasionally round- 

 ish ; skin peculiarly marked with finely reticulated, isolated 

 gray spots, surrounded by paler green, and having irregular, 

 dark green, longitudinal stripes extending from the base to 

 the apex ; rind thin, about half an inch thick ; seed pure 

 cream- white, with a faint russet stripe around the edge ; 

 flesh deep red to the centre ; flavor sugary and delicious ; 

 quality " best." Productiveness said to be unusually great. 

 This excellent variety originated in Sumter District, 

 South Carolina. 



PAPANJAY, OR SPONGE CUCUMBER. 



Cucumis acutangulus. 



This is an East Indian plant, with a creeping stem, and 

 angular, heart-shaped leaves. The flowers (several of which 

 are produced on one stem) are yellow ; the fruit is ten or 

 twelve inches in length, about an inch and a half in diameter, 



