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The article previously stated: "According to Chinese sources, the melons were introduced to China by a Mr. Wallace, Vice President of the United States, who donated melon seeds to the locals while visiting in the 1940s. This man was almost certainly Henry A. Wallace, Vice President under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who had a background in agriculture and had founded a major seed company, Pioneer Hi-Bred." I rephrased this ("almost certainly"?) because there were no other Vice Presidents of the United States named Wallace besides Henry A. Wallace, and Wallace did visit China in the 1940s. I can't guarantee that Wallace brought melon seeds with him to China, or that the Chinese had never grown honeydew melons before, but we don't need to be so cautious as to speculate that a United States Vice President named "Mr. Wallace" who was around in the 1940s might possibly have been someone other than Henry A. Wallace. --Metropolitan90(talk) 01:28, 25 August 2018 (UTC)Reply
