pine melon n
= pie melon n 1.
1876 Russell Co. Record (KS) [26 Oct 3]/2, Last spring . . a kind neighbor sent us a lot of garden seeds, among others, an innocent looking package marked, (as we construed it) “Pine melon.” Shortly after, another thoughtful neighbor made a present identical with the former only labeled “Pie melon.” 1889 Aegis & Intelligencer (Bel Air MD) 4 Jan [2]/2, Mrs. Samuel E. Stewart has our thanks for a jar of nice pine melon preserves. 1895 S. Cultivator 53.240 nGA, I have also another melon, which my negro field hand calls the “pine” melon, but which is probably that known as the pie melon. This is a whitish green, and grows about probably fourteen inches long. . . I fed the last two of these to my hogs in March, when I gave them the remaining citrons. a1916 in 1931 Treadwell Cattle King 225 cwCA, [Letter:] Do you think our sheep that have teeth could eat the pine melons by splitting them in two with a spade? 1938 Sumter Daily Item (SC) 27 Dec 5/2, [Advt:] For Sale—About 30 two-horse wagon loads of citrons or pine-melons. . . They are good feed for dairy cows and hogs. 2004 Abbeville Herald (AL) 19 Aug 6/3, I gathered my watermelons recently and gave most of them away. The patch was mostly citrons or pine melons and I didn’t have many watermelons.