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Mountain Sprout Water Melon 



Improved Gipsey Melon. 



Mountain 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 €wip§ey. 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. 



lee-Cream. (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. 



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 

 medium size, fair quality. Very little cultivated. 



Kattle 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 G-ipsey, but the stripes larger ; fine market variety. 



MUSTARD. 



Moutarde* (Fr.) Senf, (Ger.) Mostaza, (Sp.) 

 White or Yellow Seeded. | Largeleaved. 



This is grown to quite an extent in the Southern States, and is sown 

 broad-cast during fall, winter and spring. It may be used the same 

 as Spinach, or boiled with meat as greens. The White or Yellow seeded 



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