For the Southern States. 



Improved Gipsey Melon. 



Mountain Sweet Water. This is a very popular variety, 

 is of obloug shape, iiesh bright scarlet and of good flavor. It is 

 very productive. 



Moutain Sprout Water. This is similar in shape to the 

 foregoing variety, but rather later. It is light green with irregu- 

 lar stripes of dark green. Flesh bright scarlet. 



Iniin'oved Gipsey. This is a lately introduced variety 

 which has become the favorite of the market-gardeners. It is 

 very large, oblong and of a dark green color, striped ?nd mottled 

 with, light green. Flesh scarlet, and of delicious flavor. This 

 is without any exception the best market variety, 



Ice-Cream. (White Seeded.) A medium sized variety 

 of excellent quality. It is early and very productive. Being 

 thin in the rind it is not so well adapted for the market as the 

 other kinds 5 notwithstanding this, it is grown exclusively by 

 some for that purpose, on account of its earliness. It has come 

 into general cultivation more and more every year, as it is very 

 sweet, and sells readily in the market. 



Orange Water. Quite a distinct variety from the others. 

 The rind cail be peeled off the same as the skin of an orange. It 

 is of medium size, fair quality. Very little cultivated. 



Rattle Snake, An old Southern variety which has come 

 into notice since a few years; it is of large size, the green not 

 quite so dark as the Gripsey, but the stripes larger; fine market 

 variety. The past season, when other varieties failed, it stood 

 the wet weather well, and sold more readily than others, not hav- 

 ing been injured in looks. It stands transportation better than 

 any other; has become the standard market variety, and taken 

 the place of the Mountain Sweet and Mountain Sprout, which 

 were planted in former years. 



