For the Southern Staten. 
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no Cucumbers, Squashes, Gourds or Pumpkin are cultivated in the 
vicinity. If the best and earliest specimens are selected for seed, in 
three or four years the fruit will be large and fine. 
MELON-WATER. 
Melon d’Eau (Fi\), Wassermelone (Ger.), Sandia (Sp.). 
Mountain Sweet. ! Orange Water. 
Mountain Sprout. I Kattle Snake. 
Improved Gipsey. | Cuban Queen. 
Ice-Cream (White seeded). 
Water Melon will grow and produce in places where Can to loupe 
will not do well. The soil for this plant should be light and sandy. 
Plant in hills about eight feet apart, eight to twelve seeds in a hill; 
when the plants are well up thin out to three. The plants should be 
hoed often, and the ground between the hills kept clean till the vines 
touch. 
Mountain Sweet Water Melon. 
Improved Gipsey Melon. 
