Sunday, March 27, 2011

Free Vintage Clip Art - Vintage Watermelon Seed Packets

Vintage Watermelon Seed Packets

I love watermelon!  It's my favorite fruit.  

Did you know?

Watermelons are originally from southern Africa

Historians have evidence of its cultivation in the Nile Valley as far back as the second millennium BC

Watermelon seeds were found in the tomb of King Tut

By the 10th century AD China was cultivating watermelons

Today, China is the largest grower of watermelons

The word watermelon made its first appearance in an English dictionary in 1615

A watermelon contains 6% sugar and 94% water by weight and is a source of Vitamin C 



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Oh my gosh I cannot wait to have me some fresh watermelon!

Enjoy!