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beginning to appreciate its fine qualities. It can be planted in 

 hills only 3 or 4 feet apart each way, two or three plants to the 

 hill. 



Bay View. — A white-fleshed, oblong variety, with green, 

 netted skin. Medium sized. 



Montreal, Montreal Nutmeg. — A mammoth variety, much 

 grown under glass at the northeast. I did not find it of much 

 value for outdoor culture in New 

 Jersey. 



Osage. — A Western market 

 sort; green fleshed, small, round, 

 netted. 



Banana. — Grows 18 inches and 

 upward in length, and only 2 to 4 

 inches in thickness. Flesh thick, 

 solid, reminding somewhat of 

 bananas. 



Algerian Canteloupe.— Flesh Hardy Ridge, 



thick and juicy, sweet and having a delicate aroma. Fruit 

 round, slightly elongated, with many roundish dark green warts 

 or scabs, which change to an orange color when fruit is ripe. 



Prescett, Hardy Ridge. — Thick fleshed, salmon colored ; few 

 seeds. This and the preceding are favorites with Paris (France) 

 growers. Not grown to any extent in America, except as curiosity. 



MELON— WATER. 



Citridhis Vulgaris {Caaunis Citndhis). German, Wasser- 

 mciofie ; French, Melon d'eaii ; Spanish, Saiidia. — Culture of the 

 water-melon is very similar to that of the musk varieties, except 



that the soil, if anything, should be warmer and richer, and the 

 hills made from six to ten feet apart each way, according to vigor 

 of variety and strength of soil. 



