. Descriptive catalog of vegetables. Commercial catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Herbs Catalogs. BREEDERS AND GROWERS 99 Weight pounds Days KLECKLEY'S SWEET (Wondermelon) 30 85 For local use, not shipping. Fruits large, cylindrical, dark bluish green with thin, tender rind. Flesh bright red, tender and sweet; seeds creamy white with traces of brown. Klondike, Dark Green 25 80 Popular in California. Fruits oblong, slightly tapering to the blos- som end, solid dark green rind. Flesh very sweet and of fine tex- ture; seeds sma
. Descriptive catalog of vegetables. Commercial catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Herbs Catalogs. BREEDERS AND GROWERS 99 Weight pounds Days KLECKLEY'S SWEET (Wondermelon) 30 85 For local use, not shipping. Fruits large, cylindrical, dark bluish green with thin, tender rind. Flesh bright red, tender and sweet; seeds creamy white with traces of brown. Klondike, Dark Green 25 80 Popular in California. Fruits oblong, slightly tapering to the blos- som end, solid dark green rind. Flesh very sweet and of fine tex- ture; seeds small, black. Klondike R7 25 80 A Fusarium wilt resistant green Klondike type developed at the College of Agriculture, Davis, California. Fruits oblong, slightly tapering to blossom end; rind dark green, tough though thin. Flesh bright deep red. Seeds small, varying from tan to black. Miles 30 85 Named for Dr. L. E. Miles of Mississippi State College, where the original cross, Dixie Queen x Klondike R7, was made; devel- oped by the Mississippi and West Tennessee Experiment Stations. Vine vigorous and highly resistant to Fusarium wilt. Fruits of similar shape to Florida Giant, rind light green with dark green stripes, thin but tough. Flesh bright red, without white or hard heart. Seeds white. Mountain Hoosier 50 90 Fruits very large, round oval with blunt ends; rind tough, dark green. Flesh bright red and sweet, of fine eating quality. Seeds white, edged with black. Peerless (Ice Cream) 20 85 Fruits oblong, medium green, with fine veining; rind thin. Flesh bright red, sweet; seeds Hawkesbury: a wilt-resistant shipping variety STONE MOUNTAIN 35 90 Introduced by H. G. Hastings Co. Fruits very large, oval-round with blunt ends; medium green with indistinct veining, rind thin but fairly tough. Flesh rich scarlet, fine grained and sweet; seeds white with black tip. Stone Mountain No. 5 25 80 A Fusarium wilt resistant strain of this widely used variety devel- oped by the Iowa Exp
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