A high-quality, standard muskmelon on the left; the original, perfect-flowered 



melon on the right ; in the middle the first cross between these plants. This is 



the first step in producing a new variety. 



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A muskmelon plant fruiting in the 



greenhouse. Plants are trained to a 



string so as to make more economical 



use of the greenhouse space. 



fertile. A large F2 population was 

 grown in the field in 1949 with the 

 hope that the unusual earliness of 

 the sweet melon might be combined 

 with the size and thickness of flesh 

 of Granite State. Very early selec- 

 tions of high quality were made, 

 some of which resemble Honey Dew 

 melon in flavor and color. 



SQUASHES 



BUSH BUTTERCUP SQUASH 



Cucurbita Maxima, to which our 

 true squashes belong, contains no 

 true bush varieties. Commercial 

 varieties grow long vines which, 

 after producing many male blossoms 

 at the base, finally develop pistallate 

 blossoms several feet from the crown. 

 Thus, the ordinary squash requires a 

 large amount of space in the garden 

 and is comparatively late. 



A variety known as Zapolita, and 

 collected by the Office of Foreign 

 Seed Plant Introduction, is a so- 

 called tree squash and comes the 

 nearest to being a bush squash within 



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