COXTKXTS IX 



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seeds — Time for early and late crop — 

 Training to strings or wires — Fertilizing 

 the blossoms — Market — Varieties — Insects 

 •^Diseases. 



CHAPTER X 



Insects axd Diseases .... 68-69 



The common forms, with remedies — Mice 

 and gophers or gronnd squirrels — Fungous 

 and bacterial diseases of melons — Disease- 

 resistant plants 



CHAPTER XI 



List of Varieties . . . . . 90-101 

 A description of fifty-five varieties of 

 muskmelons grown out-of-doors and nine 

 foreign varieties — A list of good forcing 

 varieties g^own in this country — A de- 

 scription of forty-six varieties of water- 

 melons. 



