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on climate. Perfect harvests are produced as far 

 north as Canada. There are, however, certain so- 

 called special melon centers throughout the 

 country. Unless the soil is heavy and low, the 

 home garden might possibly prove to be a real 

 melon center. Try a few bush melons in the 

 garden ; and plant others on the watermelon plan- 

 tation. All these melons need more room than 

 the cucumbers, but the same intelligent care that 

 is given the sensitive cucumber ought to produce 

 plenty of delicious fruit ready for use in the early 

 fall. We should surely want to try, sometime, 

 the joyous adventure of growing melons. 



Among watermelons, there are early small- 

 fruited sweet varieties that mature in the short 

 seasons of northern gardens. Give them a warm 

 place and light "quick" soil. The watermelons 

 (Plate V) are handsome fruits to grow. 



Squashes 



When it comes to squashes, there is no question 

 about making room for them in the country gar- 

 den. Our city garden plot, also, may find space 

 for even the big lusty-growing winter squash. A 

 friend who lives in the heart of a little city in a 

 section where space is so valuable for churches 

 and schools that there is scarce room for a rose- 

 garden, grew Hubbard squashes successfully. 

 Kather, the squashes grew themselves. Some 

 seeds had been scattered by chance on the bare 



