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qualities but too tender for shipping. It is a long, 

 oval -shaped melon with dark green rind. Flesh 

 scarlet, firm and delicious in flavor. Bradford is a 

 favorite melon for home use and local markets wherever 

 grown. It is very early, medium in size, of oblong form, 

 rind striped, flesh red, tender and crisp. Gray Monarch 

 or Long White Icing. While experimenting with varie- 

 ties of melons nearly twentj^ years ago, this melon was 

 planted as Jordan^ s Gray Monarch. By the side of it was 

 planted what was known as the Sugar Loaf, a variety 

 that has been highly prized in several southern states 

 for fifty years. The two varieties were identical in every 

 material respect, even to producing the same sport of a 

 darker greenish gray. Seminole, no doubt, had the same 

 origin, since, when planted by the old Sugar Loaf, it 

 produced the identical sport which seems deeply inbred in 

 the original variety and those derived from it. They are 

 all of superior table quality, having deep red flesh, 

 tender and crisp, and very thin rind. Varieties often 

 change in varietal characteristics under different en- 

 vironments. Georgia Rattlesnake, grown in the sandy 

 soils in the vicinity of Augusta, Ga., has no superior 

 either for home use or market; but 150 miles north of 

 Augusta it does not maintain its good qualities. 



Buke Jones, Pride of Georgia and the Jones. — These 

 all seem to have been derived from the same stock, and, 

 as the Jones made its appearance earlier, we are inclined 

 to assign to it the parentage. I received seed of the 

 Jones from the originator, Mr. Reuben Jones, of Dough- 

 erty county, Georgia, in 1884, and planted it in 1885, 

 and at the same time planted it under another name. 



