For the Southern States. 



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Improved Gipoey Melon. 



Mountain Sweet Water. This is a very x>opular variety, 

 is of oblong shape, tlesh bright scarlet and of good flavor. It is 

 very productive. 



Mountain Spront 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. 



Improved Gripsey, This is a lately introduced variety 

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

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

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

 is without any exception the best market variety. 



Ice-Cream. (Whites 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; 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 can be peeled ofl:' the same as the skin af an orange. It 

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



Rattle Snake. An old Southern variety which has come 

 into notice since a few years 5 it is of large size the green not 

 quite so dark as the Gipsey, 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 varietj^, and taken 

 the place of the Mountain Sweet and Mountain Sprout, which 

 Avere x)lanted in former years. 



