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[Geoffrey Tolle <Gtolle0709@wowway.com>]

Doc,

    Probably not quite useless. The seeds are probably edible. The 
egushi, a very bitter watermelon relative, is widely grown in Africa for 
its seeds. The natives have a "technique" for shelling the seeds and 
several hulless or nearly hulless varieties have been developed. I 
suppose that it just depends on the size of the seeds.

                                                            Geoffrey Tolle

Doc Lisenby wrote:

> Tom, ask around among farmers in NorCar.  Citron was an undesirable pest 
> plant found among watermelon patches back in the thirties, forties and 
> fifties.  [Deletions] They are worthless for eating purposes, except for 
> preserved citron as far as I know.
> Doc Lisenby
>