MUSHROOM 



the price, according to demand and supply. Tlie best 

 season for the consumption of Mushrooms is the late 

 fall and winter months, as they keep in the cool, dry 

 weather for several days, and small dealers have no 

 trouble with them spoiling on their hands. The price 

 during these months varies according to supply and 

 demand. In the summer months a few will do well, but 

 they spoil so readily in the heat that dealers do not care 

 to handle any stock; therefore, if there were a large 

 supiily from June until October they would surely go 

 tn M 1-1. . Til- _i. i\srr-. i.-.-niT;illy t;ike advantage of this 

 ;i;, : ! . i|> in ■- itni ii ii r. :ind prepare for the 



,■■- , -. •, m'.:ii nii-i;,k,- is that the small 



f;n..A..r i- ; immmii, i., rr,,,.], ili,. ,-,„isuiiuT, He wants 



to save till' liliir iv iiirli 111,. iiii.iJl.'iiKMi ..r.li^tribiitii- y-cts, 

 and he gixcs lli.-ni l,. Ilif r.l.nl, r. ti. iv'-t;Mir;inl-. "V I" 



He is'soni-tniM- r, .,,,,„. II, , I i,, lakr Vm,,, ■_',-, I,, :,.i pri- 



cent less tli:i', hkm'I- i |.r , ami In- ili,iuri-.s tliL- luarkct 



as well. All , ..--■ - n. ■. i-uv.Mu.l 



MUSKMELON 



1049 



If 



sup- 



ijli. tli.y f;o only to the better 

 ,11 Ills; l)iit as the price gradu- 

 -ii-iiMiptiiin increases and the poorer 

 1 ri-staurants and families consume 

 option of canned and dried Mush- 

 rooms is not increasing as rapidly as that of the fresh- 

 grown, and wc arc- hd to believe that in the near future 

 our horac-m , n ^Ii 1, : ,,,,riis will be canned and dried as 

 the forei-i, ; ■ . -,.me of the canners are now 



making k,: .mds and poorer grades. We 



believe iha; .;,, , ;, pi i.m can be doubled and pos- 

 sibly trebkd ai a ;;,„,,! luuflt if sold at half the present 

 prices. We expect tu hear before long of some house 

 that will make a specialty of Mushrooms and sell noth- 

 ing else. Archdeacon & Co. 



HUSK. The common Musk Plant of the gardens is 

 Afimiilus moschatiis, an American plant. The wild 

 Musk Plant of Europe, however, isUrodhim moscliatiim. 



clL^of™- 

 ally decrea-, 

 grade of hot 

 them. The 





cold til. -nail, r. In li.,ll„,i- li , , ' ,,, : ,.arer the 



glass, ali.l 111.- ^a-h ina) l„- -liii ; , , ,■ , ,ii all fair 



days, tli.r.-l,> all.. Hin- il,._- pl,,iii- , ,,,,■ -radually 



inured tu liuld couanioiis. Mi lui., ii ai,.,|.kuii ^^ itb diffi- 

 culty; therefore they are always groivu ou pieces of in- 

 verted sods or in some temporary receptacle. Some 

 growers employ pint and quart berry-baskets, such as 

 are used for raspberries and strawberries. Others use 

 a bask.-t-splint whi.-li is al,„ut 3% in. wide and 14 in. 

 Ion;;, an, I \vlii,|i i- ,iii in :, I. a-ket machine at such dis- 

 tanct-s Unit w In n III,- vpliiii i^ bent it will make a four- 

 X without top 

 lield together 1 

 siii-l.- small tack. These forms may be packed together 

 ti-hily ill the hotbed and filled with earth and two or 

 iliii. s, I lis planted in each. When the plants have 

 acquired two or three rough leaves, they are ready to be 

 placed in the field. The forms can be taken from the 

 hotbed by running a spade or shingle underneath them. 

 With the fingers, the box is pulled apart and the cubical 

 mass of earth is dropped into the hole made for it, and 

 the plant r. .-.-iv. s i,., i-ln-.-k. Th.-n- is so much loss 

 from 111.- .1. i-r.-. In 1,, II- lit III.- ^n-ip.-.l l.i.ftleand the flea- 



IALL0W = /7-'.,s 



I In Musk 



is lis,, //, 



Marsh M 



M¥SKMELONS( Plate XIX) 

 arenowa\er\ impoitant com 

 mercial product in North 

 America, and the cultivation 

 and use of them are increas 

 ing rapidly. The hot, bright 

 climate suits them "well Musk 

 melons thrive best m -i 1\ it 

 and quick warm s s 



they are very su 

 frost and are a 1 



and claj ej . It Mubkmelons 

 must be grown on such land 

 it is advisable to make the 



hills. This is done by digging out a half -bushel or bushel 

 of earth and replacing it w ith well-mixed loam and short 

 manure. The plants are then able to secure a quick 

 hold on the soil and to become thoroughly established 

 before the dry weather of July and August. 



In the southern states, the seeds of melons are usually 

 planted in the field where the crop is to mature. In the 

 northern states, however, the plants are started in 

 forcing-houses or hotbeds. As a rule, hotbeds are more 

 satisfactory than forcing-houses, since the plants can be 

 hardened off better. In forcing-houses, the plants are 

 likely to be too hot, even though there is no pipe heat, 

 and they tend to become very soft. Plants which are 



the 



pois 



possible to cover the foliage completely with 



Tbere are two general types of commercial Musk- 

 melons in North America— the furrowed and hard-rinded 

 kinds, which are known as cantaloupes, and the netted 

 and softer-rinded types, known as nutmeg or netted 

 melons (Fig. 1447). In the southern states the word 

 cantaloupe is used generically for all melons, but this 

 use of the term is erroneous (see Cucumis, page 408, 

 Bailey, A. G. 14: 206; Waugh, G. F. 8: 183). The vari- 

 ous strains of netted melons are the ones mostly grown 

 in the North for the home garden and for early market. 

 The cantaloupes are mostly longer-season varieties. 



