@ IMPROVED GARRISON 
(Days to Maturity, 95) 
Users: Excellent shipper, also for home and 
market garden. 
Fruit: Large and elongated, blunt ends with 
pale and dark green stripes. Flesh red 
and sweet, of excellent quality. 
e STONE MOUNTAIN 
(Days to Maturity, 90) 
Good shipper for long distances. Also 
a good home-garden variety. 
UsEs: 
Fruit: Very large, broad and oval to almost 
round with blocky ends, rind hard, 
tough, dark green. Bright scarlet flesh 
and white seeds with black tips. Weighs 
about 50 pounds. 
Watermelon, Improved Kleckley Sweet 
e IMPROVED KLECKLEY SWEET 
(Days to Maturity, 85) 
Usss: Widely used for home gardens and local 
markets. 
Fruit: Large, cylindrical in shape, rind thin, 
deep dark green. Fine-textured flesh, 
sparkling red in color. Weighs about 35 
pounds. Seeds white. 
@ LEESBURG (Wilt Resistant) 
(Days to Maturity, 90) 
Uses: The same as Improved Kleckley Sweet. 
This is a wilt-resistant strain of Kleckley 
Sweet. : 
Fruit: Rind dark green. Red flesh and white 
seed. z 
e IRISH GRAY Watermelon, Stone Mountain 
(Days to Maturity, 90) j . 
Usses: Good for shipping to distant markets. 
Fruit: Large, oblong, rind light grayish green in 
color, hard and tough. Flesh firm, 
brilliant red. Weighs about 35 pounds. 
Seeds white. 
@ FLORIDA FAVORITE 
(Days to Maturity, 85) 
Usts: Home and market gardens. 
Fruit: Large, oblong, rind dark green with 
mottled stripe of light green. Flesh deep 
red in color and seeds white.. Weighs 
about 30 pounds. 
@ HAWKESBURY (Wilt Resistant) 
(Days to Maturity, 87) 
Home and market gardens. Excellent for 
shipping. 
Fruit: Light green rind, uniform shape. 
flesh and black seed. 
UsEs: 
Red 
e DUDE CREEK 
(Days to Maturity, 95) 
e@ SSC 606 STONE MOUNTAIN 
(Mayet Maturity. 98) Extensively for home gardens. 
UsEs: 
Fruit: Large and cylindrical, rind thin and 
Usrs: Excellent all-purpose melon. tender with irregular longitudinal dark 
Fruit: Large, oval, rind dark green. Bright red 
flesh. Weighs about 50 pounds. Seed 
dark mottled brownish black. 
Richmond, Virginia 
and pale green stripes. Flesh-sweet and 
of good eating quality. Weighs about 
40 pounds. 
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