52 THE NEW HORTICULTURE. 



far the safer plan. For market, especially distant ones, it 

 will not pay to grow large cantalopes. The small, solid, well- 

 netted ones sell for as much and weigh far less. Remember 

 that it is useless to try to grow good crops of either canta- 

 lopes or watermelons year after year on the same ground, 

 unless potash in some form is liberally supplied each crop, 

 and a good supply of vegetable matter turned under. Potash 

 is the element in new ground that makes it so well adapted 

 to melons, and it must be supplied, and if freely, then melons 

 can be grown year after year with perfect success, the oft- 

 quoted and common notion to the contrary notwithstanding. 



