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Originally Posted by carolyn137
Here's the history of Earliana and at the bottom of the page click on the ND one.
http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Earliana
And Tania lists several other Earliana versions as well.
Hope that helps.
Carolyn, and I should mention that Glenn Drowns of Sandhill is originally from Idaho and grew crops there, some with great difficulty b'c of the weather and ended up breeding a fantastic watermelon called Blacktail Mountain which thrived there and is grown everywhere else and folks love it, me included.
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Thats pretty cool, the history, and I read about the blacktail mountain watermelon as the inspiring first story from an inspiring book I read awhile ago about breeding vegetables. Never tried it but I would if I saw it in a market.
Sometimes I think a lot of the background for our favorite cultivars are apocryphal, like finding them growing wild in sidewalk cracks, in one tiny village in Ukraine, etc., but who knows.