A New Sweet Melon Cultivar “Mitiangua”

“Mitiangua”,suitable to be cultivated in highmoisture area of Southern China,is a systematic selection of new melon cultivar by our institute through sex hybridization in succession.It bears the characteristics as followings.The main stem is two meters in length;The maturity fruit appears as spherical and glossy lightgreen,which normally loads at offshoot and weighsabout 0.5 kg inaverage.The finely textred flesh is firm,bright green with good fiavour and honey-sweet taste due to its sugar content of more than 13%.“Mitiangua”has shown its excellent resis-tance to fuserium wilt and powery mildew and also its higher tolerance to other virus dis-eases.Special attributions of “Mitiangua”are its earliness and high yield.its maturity period rangs from 7O-100 days after planting.In Fujian,it can be seeded down from March 15 to July 15.The fruit will be mature after 28 days(averaging temperature is not below 25℃),and it should be harvested at suitable stage for remaining optimum quality.