For the Southern States. 



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Monntain Sprout Water Melon. 



Improved Gipsey Melon. 



MoorataiBi Sweet Water. This is a very popular variety, is of 

 oblong shape, flesh bright scarlet and of good flavor. It is very pro- 

 ductive. 



Mountain Sprout Water. This is similar in shape to the fore- 

 going variety, but rather later. It is light green with irregular stripes 

 of dark green. Flesh bright scarlet. 



Improved Oipsey. 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 and mottled with light green. 

 Flesh, scarlet, and of delicious flavor. This is without any exception 

 the best market variety. 



Sce-€reaf¥B. (White seeded.) A medium sized variety of excel- 

 lent 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, but notwith- 

 standing this, it is grown exclusively by some for that purpose, on 

 account of its earliness. 



Orang^e \Fater. Quite a distinct variety from the others. The 

 rind can be peeled off the same as the skin of 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 ; 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. 



