THE WATERMELON 



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which has been selected to represent the type is significant on 

 account of the old variety that the term suggests. 



Figure 4 illustrates five varieties of this type and figure 5 

 three more. The following diagram contains those varieties 

 we have tested : 



Icing Tvpe 

 (oval shape) 



light seed 



( Dark Icmg, 

 I Ford hook Early, 

 I Ice Cream, 

 -j Peerless, 

 I Green and Gold*, 

 I Jones' Jumbo, 

 t Ruby Gold, 



* 



i^ dark seed ■{ Hungarian Honey 



Fig. II. — Dull Striped Watermelons. 



Triumph. 



Pride of Georgia. Christmas. 



IJlack Boulder. 



