Garden Manual 
Improyed Gipsey Melon. 
Mountain Sweet Water. This was once a very popular 
variety ;it is of oblong shape, flesh bright scarlet and of good fiavor. It 
is very productive. 
Mountain Sprout Water. Thisissimilarin shape to the fore- 
going variety, but rather later. Itis light green with irregular stripes 
of dark green. Flesh bright scarlet. 
Improved Gipsey. This is a lately introduced variety which 
has become the favorite of the market gardeners. It is very large, ob- 
long, 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. (WHITESEEDED.) A medium sized variety of excel- 
lent quality. Itis early and very productive. Being thin in the rind 
it is not so well adapted for the market as the other kinds; notwith- 
standing this, it is grown exclusively by some for that purpose, on ac- 
count 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 off the same as the skin of an orange, It is of me- 
dium 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 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 having been injured in looks. It 
stands transportation better than any other; has become the stand- 
ard market variety, and taken the place of the Mountain Sweet and 
Mountain Sprout, which were planted in former years. The seed I 
offer of this variety is grown for me by one of the best growers in 
Georgia. It is of the purest strain that can be found. 
Cuban Queen. A striped variety; highly recommended by 
Northern seedsmen; said to reach from fifty to seventy pounds. 
Sweet and of delicate flavor; it does not grow as large here as said it 
does North. 
Mammoth Iron Clad. A new variety; highly reeommended 
North, but does not come up to expectation when planted here. 
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