DESSERT SEED CO. EL CENTRO, CALIF. 

MUSKMELON OR CANTALOUPE, Continued 
Honey Dew, Green Flesh. Fruits broad oval, 71 inches long by 6-inch 
diameter. Skin almost white becoming creamy yellow, smooth with 
only occasional netting. Flesh thick, juicy and sweet, ripens right 
up to the rind. Good storage and shipping variety. Weighs up to 
6 pounds. Particularly adapted to the Pacific Coast. 
Honey Dew, Golden Rind. Fruits similar in every way to regular strains 
of Honey Dew, develops about 10 days earlier. Sometimes called 
Golden Honeymoon. 
Netted Gem or Rocky Ford. Fruits nearly round, a little blunt oval, 
5¥2 by 5 inches. Skin green, entirely covered with fine gray net- 
ting. Flesh thick, green with narrow gold border at center. Has a 
sweet spicy flavor. Weighs up to 22 pounds. Well known shipping 
and home garden variety. 
WATERMELON 
(Citrullis vulgaris) (Annual) 
Baby Klondike (see Klondike, Baby). 
Chilian, Black Seeded. Fruits almost round, 10 by 914 inches. Color 
dark green with darker green stripes, weight up to 18 pounds. 
Flesh bright red, ripens right up to the rind, excellent quality, 
early, prolific and useful for shipping. Seed black. 
Citron, Red Seeded. For preserving only, not palatable in a raw state. 
Fruits almost round, 8 by 7 inches, color alternate light green and 
dark green streaks, weight up to 10 pounds. Flesh white and very 
solid. Seed bright red. 
Citron, Green Seeded. Very similar to Red Seeded, may be a little 
larger and seeds are a bright green. 
Coles Early (see Harris’ Earliest). 
Congo. All-America 1950. Congo (formerly known as 46-40) is a new 
Anthracnose-resistant Watermelon developed at the Regional 
Vegetable Breeding Laboratory of the United States Department 
of Agriculture at Charleston, S. C., by Drs. C. F. Poole and C. F. 
Rae The U.S.D.A. announces release for general planting in 
Congo gets its name from one of its parents, a South African 
variety of particular anthracnose resistance. Congo is described as 
a large, semi-long type melon that matures in about 90 days. It 
resembles the Garrison* very generally in size and shape. It is a 
striped melon but the stripes are much darker than Garrison and 
the melons are easily distinguished from that variety. Sizes up to 
60 lbs. are not uncommon and it possesses total solids (mostly 
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