Hannah's Choice F' has a large, dense vine with medium green foliage. The fruit is highly netted, ribbed, slightly oval, monoecious, and slips when ripe. The rind is very firm, which gives it some shipping quality, comparing well to Western shippers sold in east coast markets. In a ring firmness that that compared western shipper melon from a local grocery store the rind firmness of Hannah'sChoice F, was not statistically different from the western hybrid muskmelons. The rind firmness of Hannah's Choice' melons that had been in cold storage at 3.3 oC for 7 daveraged 1713.0 kN. m 2 with a standard devia tion of 162.2. Western shipper melons from the local grocery storeaveraged 2030.8 kN.m with a standard deviation of 379.3. In one informal test, Hannah's Choice' and Athena Were placed in uncooled storage. 'Athena' lasted 5 d before going soft, at which time Hannah's Choice' was still hard(P Whitwood, personal communica- tion). The ability to hold in storage observed in"Hannah's Choice" likely comes from the virus resistant Cornell TAM Uvalde parent.