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low, melting, and richly flavored. A recently introduced 

 variety of great merit. 



Skillman's Netted. — Form roundish, oval; flesh deep 

 green, sweet, and richly perfumed. A variety much 

 esteemed for forcing, as it is closer growing than most 

 other sorts, and also one of the earliest. 



Persian Ispahan. — A most valuable variety for the 

 more Southern States, although entirely too late for this 

 vicinity, unless forwarded previously under glass before 

 planting out. It is oval, of the largest size, averaging a 

 foot in length, with a diameter in its greatest thickness 

 of 8 inches. Skin smooth, and when fully ripe, of a light 

 yellow ; flesh yellowish white, having a rich perfume and 

 delicious flavor. 



Christiana. — A comparatively recent variety that has 

 hardly come up to first expectations ; it is reddish yellow 

 fleshed, very sweet, but without the rich flavor of the 

 green-fleshed sorts. However, its inferiority in flavor, is 

 compensated by its greater earliness, but wherever the 

 green-fleshed varieties mature, the red or yellow fleshed 

 need never be crown. 



MELON. — Water. — {Citrullus vulgaris.) 



Like the Musk Melon, when cultivated for sale, this is 

 essentially a plant more suited for the farm than the gar- 

 den, as it requires even more space in which to grow. The 

 soil best suited to it is a rather sandy loam ; heavier soils 

 being apt to induce a too strong growth of leaves. It 



