Watermelon – Winter King & Queen

Description

95 Days | A unique and rare winter keeper type watermelon. With light-green skin and pink-red flesh, these melons have a good sweetness and excellent flavor. Some refer to this type as a Christmas watermelon because once picked, it can be stored into December. These are being reintroduced from Burrell Seed stock seed from a century old line.

From our 1923 catalog “Winter Queens are nearly round, nearly white, with narrow pale green The seeds are black and small. The flesh deep red. very firm, stringless, sweet, and of excellent quality. Ripen in about the same length of time as Kleckley Sweet, but remain solid and of good quality two or three months and may be kept until Christmas. They should be very profitable to ship South after southern melons are gone, but the weather is warm and the appetite for watermelon lingers. Burrell’s Select Winter Queens have very thin, tough rinds. The flesh sweet down to the last red portion. The seeds are bedded firmly in the flesh —no cavity around them to allow them to shake and cause decay.”