THE MELON. Tt 
Little Heath is a fine ribbed and netted Melon, with 
scarlet flesh of good quality, and a fine fruiter. Then 
there are numerous other sorts pretty generally known. 
The Water Melon is a large and very delicious 
variety. It is grown abundantly in Texas, one of the 
States of America, where Melons grow to perfection 
without any trouble ; the farmers there simply put the 
seed in the open ground in the cornfields, and they grow 
up and bear very sarge fruit, which ripens to perfection, 
and which the people find of great value during the 
hot season. I have no doubt but that any of our 
Melons would grow io perfection there quite as well as 
the Water Melon; but then they are not required, they 
say, because the Water Melon is by far the best. 
Melon seed is, as a rule, the better for being two 
or three years old but for house-work I think one year 
old is the best; for the older seed not having so much 
vitality in it as the newer, the plants grow less vigor- 
ous than those from new seed, which does well 
enough for frame-work, where as a rule there is sure to 
be too much vine. But for covering the roof of a 
house, vigour in the vines is necessary. 
THE MELON IN PITS AND FRAMES. 
A pit or frame for Melon growing should not be 
less than five feet six inches or six feet wide, inside 
measurement. If narrow pits are used there is not 
room enough for the proper development of the leaders, 
and these have to be stopped too soon or allowed to 
take a retrograde or side course, and thus get so thick 
and confused that no air can come to the blossom to 
fertilise the fruit; hence we often find that the fruit 
