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is rather more netted when ripe. Both this and the preceding 

 kind will readily carry and ripen from six to eight fruit on 

 each plant. 



Green Climbing Melon. A vigorous, branching plant, with 

 long slender stems. Leaves dark green, sometimes five-lobed, 

 especially those near the ends of the stems ; fruit oblong, with ribs 

 faintly marked, deep green in colour, slightly dotted with pale 

 green, 4 or 5 in. long and 3 or 4 in. in diameter, and weighing from 

 about one pound to one pound and a half; flesh green, very melting, 



exceedingly juicy and 

 sweet, with an agreeable 

 perfume, although not so 

 delicate as that of the 

 Cantaloup Melons. It 

 cannot be said that this 

 variety requires a different 

 mode of culture from 

 that which is commonly 

 employed for the other 

 varieties of Netted Melons ; 

 yet its earliness renders 

 it more suitable for grow- 

 ing in the open air than 

 most other kinds, and the 

 small size of the fruit 

 allows of the stems being 

 grown on a slight trellis, 

 which would be impossible 

 in the case of a large 

 heavy-fruited variety. By 

 planting it in pockets 

 filled with manure covered 

 with good soil, it may be 

 easily brought to climb 

 on espalier stakes, or even on a wall, if it has something to which 

 it can attach itself. When grown in this way, the fruit ripens 

 quicker and better. 



Some other kinds of Melon might be grown in the same way. 

 The American Pine-apple Melons, which have very long and 

 branching stems, are particularly well adapted for growing on 

 trellises. The kinds that succeed the best in this way are those 

 which grow rapidly and ripen early, and the fruit of which does not 

 require the artificial heat of a hot-bed along with the natural heat 

 of the sun to render it very sweet. 



Golden Perfection Melon. Fairly vigorous in growth, not 

 straggling, with rather thin stems and leaves of a pale gray-green. 



Green Climbing Melon ( natural size). 



