Watermelon 
CULTURE: Plant seed when weather is quite 
warm, 6 to 8 seeds in a hill, 6 to 8 feet apart 
each way. Cover 2 inch deep. One ounce will 
plant 25 to 30 hills; 4 to 5 pounds per acre. 
CONGO 
(Anthracnose Resistant) 
(Days to Maturity, 95) 
Uses: Home and market gardens. Excellent 
for shipping. 
Fruit: Prolific, large, very tough rind. Oblong 
in shape. Sweet flesh, red heart. 
Watermelon, Congo 
DIXIE QUEEN 
(Days to Maturity, 85) 
Uses: Shippers and home gardeners. 
Fruit: Almost round, with squarish ends, rind 
thin and tough, light green with dark green 
stripes. Scarlet flesh of good texture. Weighs 
about 30 pounds. Seeds very small and white. 
Watermelon, Dixie Queen 
Richmond, Virginia 
TOM WATSON, IMPROVED 
(Days to Maturity, 90) 
Uses: An old favorite among the shipping 
sorts. This improved strain with its big, full red 
heart, is exceptionally fine. It is very prolific and 
the fruits are unusually uniform in shape and 
quality. 
Fruit: Very large, cylindrical in shape, rind 
very tough and elastic, darker green than old 
strain, slightly veined. Flesh firm, rather coarse, 
free from core, delicious, deep bright red color. 
Weighs about 40 pounds. Seeds brown with white 
mottling. 
IMPROVED KLECKLEY SWEET 
(Days to Maturity, 85) 
Uses: Widely used for home gardens and lo- 
cal markets. 
Fruit: Large, cylindrical in shape, rind thin, 
deep dark green. Fine-textured flesh, sparkling 
red in color. Weighs about 35 pounds. Seeds white. 
Watermelon, Improved Kleckley Sweet 
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. 
IRISH GRAY 
(Days to Maturity, 90) 
Uses: 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. 
33 
