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To: Popman

Actually most of our fruits and vegetables have been systematically bred to travel well in box cars and trucks.

I read here on FR last year about a watermelon that was thought to be extinct. They found some seeds and it was the sweetest watermelon they had ever tasted. Its rind, however, was thin and the watermelon grew out of favor because it couldn’t be shipped to the stores without much damage.

The watermelon was called the Bradford, named after a man who was captured by the British during our Revolutionary War and was sent to prison down in the islands. He was the one who saved the seeds. It’s an interesting story.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/05/19/407949182/saving-the-sweetest-watermelon-the-south-has-ever-known


51 posted on 01/01/2016 10:23:54 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: ladyjane

I remember a story that the Japanese (?) Breed a square watermelon to cut shipping costs and minimize damage...


53 posted on 01/01/2016 10:44:00 AM PST by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
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