6 CUCURBITACEZ. IV. Cucumis. 
12 Italian green-fleshed. A middle-sized early good fruit, 
with a thick yellow rind and green flesh: in flavour both rich 
and sweet. 
13 Ionian . green-fleshed cantaloup. A large thin-skinned 
lemon-coloured and lemon-scented fruit, of excellent flavour, 
but not a great bearer. 
14 Egyptian green-fleshed. A middle-sized early good fruit, 
with a thin white netted skin and green flesh: in flavour resem- 
bling the preceding. 
15 Dutch green-fleshed. An indifferent sort. 
16 Crimea green-fleshed. A useless late fruit, of middling 
size, with a thin green skin and pale red flesh. 
17 Persian green-fleshed. A  middle-sized, green, thin- 
skinned sort, with green flesh. Not good. 
18 Green-fleshed Masulipatam. A very small and excellent 
early sort, with green skin and green flesh. 
19 Green-fleshed Valparaiso. Not very good. 
20 Red-fleshed Valparaiso. 
21 Dutch rock. A rather large good fruit, with a thick 
yellow rind, and orange-coloured flesh. 
22 Earlyrock. A good early fruit. 
23 Golden rock. A middle-sized fruit, with a thick yellow 
rind and pale red flesh, of excellent flavour. 
24 Scarlet rock. 
25 Silver rock. A large late fruit, with a thick yellow rind, 
and pale red flesh, which is juicy, sweet, and well-flavoured. 
26 Netted scarlet-fleshed. A good sort. 
27 Smooth scarlet-fleshed. A middle-sized fruit, of excellent 
flavour. The rind is thick, smooth, and yellow, and the flesh 
orange-coloured. 
28 Windsor scarlet-fleshed. A rather large, excellent-fla- 
voured, late kind, with thick green rind, and salmon-coloured flesh. 
29 Lee’s Romana, A middle-sized, longish, shallow-furrowed 
fruit. Rind hard, partly netted, and pale yellow: the flesh full 
yellow and pretty high flavoured, but not very juicy. 
80 Large netted Romana. The largest of the romanas, regu- 
larly netted all over, and shallow-furrowed, often attaining a 
large size. Rind hard and pale yellow, the flesh full yellow, 
but not very juicy: very high-flavoured, if eaten sharp ripe. 
31 Fairs Romana. A small oval fruit, the rind greenish 
yellow when ripe, and the flesh a pale yellow, not very juicy ; 
but well-flavoured and agreeable. 
82 Early Polignac, An early rich middle-sized fruit, with 
a thick yellow rind, and pale red flesh. It is in frequent cul- 
tivation. 
33 Portugal. There are two varieties of this kind, a small 
and a large sort; they are noted as good bearers and early. 
34 Sweet Italian. A large orange-coloured sort, of moderate 
quality. 
35 Netted succado. A middle-sized late green-skinned sort. 
36 Small Levant. A middle-sized sort, with a thick green 
skin and pale red flesh. Not of good quality. 
37 Smooth yellow-fleshed Valparaiso. A middle-sized, late, 
green, thin-skinned sort ; the flesh white, of moderate flavour. 
88 Brasilian. An inferior middle-sized sort, with thin green 
skin and orange-coloured flesh. 
39 Melon d'été d’Odesse. A rather large, later, indifferent 
fruit, with thin orange skin and white flesh. 
40 Melon d’Olor. A very small fruit, with yellow skin and 
white flesh, of good quality. 
41 Netied French melon. A rather large late fruit, with a 
thick yellow rind and yellow flesh, of bad quality. 
; 42 Nutmeg. A late green, thick-skinned sort, with white 
esh. 
43 Queen Ann’s melon, early queen, or queen’s pocket melon. 
A very small fruit, with ornamental striped thin skin, and white 
flesh. 
44 Carthagena. A large high-flavoured fruit, with a thick 
orange-coloured rind and pale red flesh. 
45 Cassabar. A large late fruit, with green thin skin, and 
white flesh. 
46 Cephalonia. A large oblong fruit, with thin yellow skin 
and green flesh, of tolerable flavour. 
47 Choufleur. A large fruit of little use; the skin is thick 
and yellow, and the flesh pale red. 
48 Gahoon. A large late fruit, of little value ; with yellow 
skin and yellow flesh. 
49 Geree, ostrich egg. A middle-sized late fruit, of excel- 
lent flavour : the skin as well as the flesh is green. The plant 
is rather tender. 
50 Gros Prescott fond blanc. A large late fruit, with a thick 
yellow rind, and orange-coloured flesh. 
51 Petit Prescott. Fruit depressed, crowned at the top; 
ribs warted: flesh delicious. 
52 Cantaloup natif d'Allemagne. An early fruit, with a 
greenish-yellow smoothish rind, but not of good quality. 
53 Cantaloup boule de Siam. Fruit very much depressed, 
with a dark green rind, full of warted ribs. 3 
54 Hardy ridge. A middle-sized late fruit, with a thick 
yellow rind and red flesh, of good flavour. 
A list of melons which are hardly known; but none of them 
are perhaps worth cultivation, 
1 De Andalousie. 
2 Cantaloup à chair verte. 
à fond noir. 
5 Cantaloup Galleux. 6 Chili musk. 7 Crimea. 
8 Citron. 9 D’Espagne. 10 Fagos. 11 Fin hatif. 12 Gol- 
den egg. 13 Grand Mogul. 14 Green Spanish oval. 15 Gros 
Galleux à chair verte. 16 Hardy scarlet-fleshed. 17 Highclere. 
18 D’Hiver. 19 Large Astrachan. 20 Levant. 21 Melon 
gris des Carmes, 22 Melon of Honda. 23 Melon of Jaffa. 
24 Melon Turc. 25 Madeira. 26 Mendoza. 27 Le Mogul. 
28 Du Peron. 29 Pine apple or Melon d’Ananas. 30 Musk 
melon. 31 Carthagena musk melon. 32 Murray's pine-apple. 
83 Noir de Hollande très gros. 34 Turkish melon. 35 Valen- 
tia or winter melon. 36 Wynestay. 
Var. y, Malténsis (Ser. in D. C. prod. 3. p. 800.) fruit with 
a smooth thin rind. This variety is divisible into two parts, as 
Maltese Melons and Persian Melons. 
3 Cantaloup 
* Maltese melons. 
1 Melon de Malte blanc or Melon de Malte à chair blanche. 
An early middle-sized ovate-oblong fruit, with white watery 
sugary flesh? 
2 Melon de Malte jaune. Flesh of fruit orange-coloured, 
sweet-scented. 
3 Melon de la Morée ou de Candie, or Melon de Malte d'hiver. 
This kind is cultivated in various countries bordering on the. 
Mediterranean sea, and particularly in the orange gardens at 
Hiers, near Toulon, whence its fruit is sent to Paris. The skin 
is thin; the flesh white, firm, sugary, and juicy ; not rich, but 
pleasant. The shape oval, size about a foot long and eight 
inches broad; of a dark green colour. This fruit is regularly 
imported, and may be had in the fruit shops from September to 
January. 
* * Persian melons. 
1 Daree. A good-sized fruit; skin thin and green; flesh 
white, high-flavoured. A late fruit. 
2 Dampsha melon. An excellent, late, rather large fruit, of 
nearly a cylindrical form, and netted ; rind thin and yellow when 
ripe; flesh green, quite melting, and of excellent flavour. The 
fruit will keep, if hung up by its stalk, for some time. 
3 Large germek. An excellent early green-skinned sort, of 
considerable size ; flesh green, 
