CANTALOUP. OR ROCK MELONS 



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Passy Cantaloup Melon. 



and considerably smaller. The skin is not warty, but simply 



spotted with darker green on a light green ground, especially 



on the parts of the fruit 



which are exposed to the 



sun. The fruit seldom ex- 

 ceeds 4 in., or a little 



more, in diameter, and the 



average weight is from one 



pound and a half to one 



pound and three-quarters 



at the most. The flesh is 



red, thick, sugary, and of 



a very uniformly good 



quality, even in fruit which 



ripen late in autumn., 



C. Prescott a Ecorce 



Mince. A handsome 



variety, more spherical in 



shape than most of the 



Prescott Cantaloups com- 

 monly grown about Paris, 



and yet coming very near the Sugar Cantaloup, which is also 



distinguished by the thinness of the skin. 



C. Prescott Cul de Singe. In this variety the eye of the 



fruit is considerably enlarged, the part of the fruit around it 



being swollen in such a manner as to give the fruit something 



of the appearance of a Turk's-Cap 

 Gourd. This peculiarity of shape being 

 sometimes found to be accidentally 

 accompanied with a remarkably good 

 quality in the fruit, has caused it 

 to be much sought after by some 

 amateurs, but there is really no 

 necessary connection between the two 

 things, since quite as good fruit are 

 found amongst the ordinary varieties 

 of Prescott Melons. The peculiar 

 shape, moreover, is not confined to 

 this variety, as it occasionally occurs 

 in the Sugar and other Cantaloup 

 Melons, and even in the Netted Melons, 

 and is never found to be accompanied 

 with an invariable improvement of 

 quality in any variety. 

 Queen Anne's Pocket Melon, or Pomegranate Melon. A 



slender climbing plant of light foliage, the leaf more or less deeply 



fruit, 3 natural size). 



