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Old yellow watermelon variety question

I remember back about 1980 or so when I was young that my neighbor was growing some yellow watermelons. Seems they were long, and striped.
I wanted to get some seed this year but can not determine the name of the particular 1 that my neighbor grew and he has long since passed away and I doubt his family would have a clue about them.
So what variety of yellow water melon would be long,and striped?
I would assume it was a non hybrid.

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mountain sweet yellow watermelon

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thanks, I will start looking now for the seed!

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Well I kept a check and everyone has high shipping cost on them but I found this to be about the best deal and I was able to use my paypal and not have to do a card over the phone or something.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Watermelon-seed ... 4An5VeZEeA
Burpee does not carry them. I did find some on Amazon but shipping was costly there as well. 2 other vendors came up on google.
thanks for the help. I have been wanting to grow some of these for a few years now.

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Apparently there are a number of yellow watermelon varieties. I remember planting an icebox watermelon called yellow queen.



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