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Soil. Any good earth. 



Distances. Twelve by eighteen inches. 



Depth of seed, one inch ; of root-divisions or rooted 

 cuttings, as before. 



Sow when the ground is fit, in seed-bed, or where 

 the plants are to stand. 



Thin or transplant to permanent distances. 



Set roots in spring or autumn. 



Take cuttings in summer, and water till established. 



Cut the leaves as wanted, after the plant is well 

 established. 



Renew or root-prune every few years. 



MUSKMELON (Cucumis Melo) is grown in several 

 varieties for its fruits. It is a warm-season plant, ten- 

 der to frost, and for an early crop must be started 

 under glass, by which means two crops may be had in 

 a season, and are often planted on the same ground, 

 the later between the earlier. The common varieties 

 are chiefly the cantaloup (with hard and warty, scaly, 

 or furrowed rind) and the nutmeg or netted musk- 

 melon (with softer or netted rind); the latter has the 

 shorter season and is therefore better adapted to grow- 

 ing in the North. Besides these, there are the winter or 

 long-keeping types, forcing melons, and preserving 

 melons, all of which are grown in the same manner, 

 whether out-of-doors or under glass. Diseases and 

 pests are mostly the same as cucumber. Melons 



