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as the outside temperature sufficiently modified. It took 115 

 days for fruit so handled to ripen. 



The writer has also forced the muskmelon in the greenhouse 

 with success, but refers the reader to the more elaborate work 



Fig. 3.— Muskmelon Plant ready to Transplant. (After Bailey.) 



of Professor Bailey on " Winter Muskmelons," Bulletin 95 of 

 the Cornell University Experiment Station, 1895. 



CANTALOUPE 



The term cantaloupe when used to designate muskmelons is 

 usually very misleading. A cantaloupe is a melon having a 

 scaly or rough skin, of the warty appearance of the Hubbard 



