364 Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. 



keep the soil dry, it is an excellent plan to hill up the plant slightly. 

 If a little sulphur is mixed with the soil about the plant, the spread 

 of the fungus will be checked. Some persons sprinkle lime about 

 the plant to check the fungus. 



II. Winter Melons for Field Cultivation. 



There is an interesting class* of melons little known in this 

 country, which gives fruits of long-keeping qualities. These are 

 known as the winter or scentless melons. They are mostly of an 



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65. — Winter Climbing Nutmeg Melon. 



oblong shape, with green or grayish hard rinds and commonly a 

 white or green flesh which often lacks almost entirely the character- 

 istic aroma of the muskmelon. The leaves are generally longer and 

 greener than those of the common melons. The fruits are picked 

 just before frost, when they appear to be as inedible as squashes, 

 and are stored in a fruit-room to ripen. The true winter melons 

 require a long season. We have planted them upon good soil on 

 the first day of June, and they have barely come to maturity before 



* Cucumia Melo, var. inodorus, Naudiii, Aun. Sci. Nat. Bot. 4th ser. II, p. 56. 



