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yellow ; it is also extremely tender in its growth, 

 and very inferior in flavour to the Stroud Rock ; 

 neither is it so handsome a fruit, so well-flavoured, 

 nor does it ripen any sooner. 



The Green Flesh is a fine flavoured melon, 

 with a thin skin, but generally small in its 

 dimensions. The Author has, however, a sort 

 of this kind that will grow from three to five 

 pounds in weight. 



The Black Rock melon should not be sown 

 later than the latter end of May ; the Stroud 

 and Scarlet Rock may be sown as late as the 

 tenth of June ; and the Early Cantaloupe about 

 the twentieth of June. 



In order to produce fine fruit, be particular in 

 having a good depth of earth, from a foot to 

 eighteen inches will be necessary. When the 

 hills are made for the very early melons, one 

 large barrow-full of mould will be sufficient, 

 which must be pressed down close with the hand. 

 Those that are sown in March will require one 



