224 The Profitable Culture of Vegetables. 



Varieties: Hardy Cabbage: Hammersmith, All the Year 

 Round, Sutton's Giant, Lee's Immense, Passion. Forcing 

 Cabbage : Paris Market Forcing, Milly Forcing, Tennis Ball, 

 Earliest of All. Spring and Summer Cabbage : Sutton's Su- 

 preme, Daniel's Continuity, Chavigny, Webb's Wonderful, 

 Vauxhall Defiance. Hardy Cos: Black-seeded Bath, Green 

 Winter, Winter White, Hardy White, Balloon, Sutton's White- 

 heart. Forcing Cos: Gray Paris, Early French Romaine. 

 Spring and Summer Cos : Paris White, Paris Green, Superb 

 White, Prince of Wales, Balloon, Sutton's Peerless. 



MELONS. 



Cucumis Melo. 



WHILST Melons cannot be classed as vegetables, they 

 generally form, in gardens where early salads are 

 grown in frames, a part of the rotation of crops, and it would 

 therefore be absurd to omit a description of their culture on 

 the plea that they are classed as fruits. 



The English Netted Melon can be successfully grown in 

 frames provided with a bottom heat of not less than 65 degrees, 

 but on the whole it is not sufficiently hardy to constitute a 

 reliable market garden crop except in glasshouses, in which 

 its commercial culture is almost entirely carried on. 



The Cantaloup Melon, known to fame as the Rock Melon of 

 Paris, lends itself much more readily to frame culture. In the 

 market gardens around Paris the majority of the frames which 

 are used in the spring for salad growing are afterwards used 

 to produce a summer crop of Cantaloup Melons, and great 

 numbers are raised in this way, both for consumption at home 

 and for export. 



Until a very short time ago it was considered useless, owing 

 to unsuitability of climate, to attempt to grow these Melons 

 in England in accordance with the methods of the French 

 gardener, but this conclusion has been proved entirely wrong. 

 During the past four years large numbers have been so 

 grown in a garden at Mayland, in Essex (and probably also 

 in other gardens), which have ripened perfectly and have met 



