CANTALOUP, OR ROCK MELONS 



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Large Rock Prescott Cantaloup Melon. 



nine pounds. A plant is generally allowed to carry only one fruit, 



or, in rare cases, two. 



Silvery Prescott Cantaloup Melon. This variety only differs 



from the preceding one 



in the colour of the ribs 



being somewhat more 



metallic, and in the fruit 



being a little larger, but 



of the same quality. The 



two varieties are those 



which are the most ex- 

 tensively grown by the 



Paris market-gardeners, 



who supply them in 



abundance from July to 



the end of October. As 



the large Prescott Melons 



are grown to an enormous 



extent, new varieties of 



them are of frequent 



occurrence. Whenever a 



particularly good fruit 



possesses any exterior characteristic which distinguishes it, even in 



a slight degree, from others, the cultivators aim at reproducing this 



characteristic as indicative of the quality, and that is how a new 



variety is often established. 



Parisian Cantaloup Melon. A vigorous plant with short and 



branching stem and dark green leaves, moderately cut and lobed. 



The fruit is large, 

 spherical, about 12 in. 

 in diameter, the ribs 

 being separated by 

 well-marked but very 

 shallow furrows. The 

 skin is silvery white 

 with sometimes dark 

 green blotches or warts. 

 It is very like the 

 Silver - white Prescott 

 Cantaloup Melon, the 

 most important differ- 

 ence being in the depth 

 of the flesh in com- 

 parison with that of the rind. It would be difficult to find 



a Melon possessing depth of flesh and thinness of rind in the 



same degree. 



Silvery Prescott Cantaloup Melon. 



