WATERMELONS FROM AFRICA 
they increased in size. The fruit of the mother plants in 
Africa is not much like the huge fellows that disport 
themselves in the world’s markets today. 
This tropical vine that sprawls on the ground has found 
itself a home all around the world. Being tropical, it pre¬ 
fers the warmer states in America, for instance, to those 
farther north. It also likes light and sandy soils. That 
is the reason that fifty thousand carloads of them move 
from south to north in the United States every summer. 
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