The Watermelon Tree Traditional Cache
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Did I just hear you say that there's no such thing as a watermelon tree, that watermelons don't grow on trees? Well, that just goes to show what you don't know. Although I agree that watermelons don't grow on trees, there are watermelon trees and this is a fine example of one.
Round back about 50,60, 70 years ago watermelon farming was a big activitity on the farms along this road between Beeville and San Antonio. It was a long way to the city to the grocery store so farmers often sold their produce along the road side. To get a lot of customers for their watermelons they would travel from their farm to the nearest big road. In Bee County this road was it. They would look for a good spot to set up and sell their watermelons. Since watermelons were ripe and ready to sell in the summer, June, July and August they looked for a cool spot where there was plenty of room for them to park their truck or their wagon and for the customes to park too. As a result, during the good old summertime, wherever there was a big old oak tree with plenty of room, you could usually find a farmer selling watermelons at his watermelon tree. On a good weekend there would be 30 or more watermelons trees in use between Beeville and San Antonio. The farmers and their melons are mostly gone now, although if you are lucky you may still find one or two near Floresville in the middle of July. But the watermelon trees are still here. And you can enjoy stopping and resting in the shade and while you hunt for the cache, dream about the long ago days when this tree really did have watermelons underneath it's branches.
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