WATERMELON 
MUSKMELON 
Trust the boys to know what's good. You've never heard 
of a midnight raid on the spinach plot, but it's a sure 
thing that melons in the neighborhood will excite the 
marauding urge in the younger generation. But if you've 
got high fences or a law abiding citizenry and feel reason¬ 
ably sure of doing your own harvesting, then the same 
delights that the small boys yearn for will surely 
be yours. 
Because melons are so good it* seems as though every 
aspiring breeder has come forth with his own pet strain. 
The list of muskmelons is particularly bewildering. Tip 
Top and Hearts of Gold are two of the best strains with 
yellow flesh. Hales Best, Honey Rock, and Milwaukee 
Market are fine melons having salmon pink colored 
flesh. Rocky Ford, for green flesh. Of course, telling 
you all these kinds isn't helping you a whole lot in pick¬ 
ing just one, so unless you have an aversion to yellow 
innards, try Hearts of Gold. 
Now when it comes to watermelons, even though there 
are nearly as many kinds, deciding isn't guite so hard. 
You won't go wrong with Dixie Queen. It's a roundish 
melon, juicy, and sweet. Also round and worth crawling 
through the fence for is Stone Mountain. For an oblong 
variety, Kleckley's Sweet. 
That melon patch is going to be a 
while this summer. And what a 
happy day it will be when the 
guestioning thump on the plump fruits 
no longer sounds dull, but suddenly 
takes on a new, hollow, ready-to-pick 
reverberation. 
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