NETTED MELONS 



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The fruit is spherical in shape, 4 to 5 in. or so in diameter, and 



usually not more than two to four pounds in weight. The skin is 



at first smooth and dull 



white, turning to yellow as 



the fruit ripens, becoming 



covered also with a thin 



network of slender lines 



crossed at right angles. The 



flesh is pale green, luscious, 



sugary, and perfumed. An 



early, rather delicate variety, 



only succeeding about Paris 



when grown under glass. 



Tours Netted Sugar 

 Melon. This is a rather 

 variable kind, having several 

 sub-varieties which differ 

 from one another in the 

 shape of the fruit. One form 

 of it is often met with, of 

 which the fruit is oblong ; but the best form appears to be that which 

 we are about to describe. This is a vigorous plant, of medium size, 

 and rather branching. Leaves large, entire or not very deeply 

 lobed, slightly folded at the edges, and a rather vivid green 

 colour ; fruit spherical, about 6 in. in diameter, devoid of ribs or 

 having them very faintly marked, and completely covered with very 

 coarse, broad, and prominent tracings, crossing one another at right 



Golden Perfection Melon. 



Tours Netted Sugar 

 Melon. 



Paris Market-Garden Melon 

 ( natural size). 



angles and surrounding the fruit like a network of cords ; flesh 

 orange-red, thick, firm, and generally very good. The fruit ripens 

 half-late. A plant may carry three fruit. 



Round Netted Paris Market-Garden Melon. A branching, 

 vigorous plant, with numerous rounded light green leaves, slightly 



