Category Melon
Ananas
A very sweet widely adapted variety popular in the Middle East. Large vigorous productive vines produce oblong fruit that average 4.5-5.5 pounds. Fruit have a thin yellow-orange rind with no sutures and slight netting. Flesh is creamy yellow with a hint of salmon at full maturity, soft juicy sweet and very aromatic. 90-110 days.
Hale's Best Jumbo
This is a standard early shipper with heavy coarse net and light ribs. Melons range from 6.5 to 7.5 inches long by 5.5 inches in diameter and average 4 pounds. Flesh if firm and salmon colored with a good flavor.
Hearts of Gold
70-95 days, orange flesh 6.5-7 inches x 5.5 inch diameter. 3.5-5 lbs, heavy netted with medium ribs, small cavity, medium thick rine, considered good producver and shipper. Blight resistant.
Honey Dew Green Flesh
Well known shipping and home garden variety that has a smooth creamy-white hard rind without netting or sutures. Fruit average 7.5-8″ x 6.5-7″ with thick lime-green flesh, a small seed cavity and high sugar content. 105-115 days.
Imperial 45 PMR
83-96 days, orage flesh 6.5 inches x 5.5 inch diameter 3.5-4 lbs solid netting, small ribs, medium cavity. P.M. resistant, good shipper.
Rocky Ford Green Flesh
85-95 days 5.5 inches x 4.5-5 inch diameter, 2.5-3 lbs, heavy netted, slightly ribbed good rust resistance, good for shipping and home gardens.
Top Mark
85-93 day, fruit 7-7.5 inches x 5.5-6inches in diameter. Flesh is bright salmon color. Good netting on rine, small ribbing. Resist: DM, PM, CB & SCAB. some sulphur tolerance, good shipper.