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Hardy and productive. In good soil and favorable sea- 

 sons, the fruit sometimes attains a length of fifteen inches, 

 and weighs upwards of twenty pounds. 



Monroe's Fruit nearly spherical, but tapering slightly 



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Green Flesh, towards the stem, rather regularly as well as 



distinctly ribbed. Its diameter is about five 

 inches. Cicatrix large ; skin greenish-yellow, thickly and 

 finely netted over the entire surface ; rind thin ; flesh green, 

 remarkably transparent, thick, very melting, and highly 

 perfumed. 



Nutmeg. Fruit oval, regularly ribbed, eight or nine 

 inches in length, and six inches in its broadest 

 diameter ; skin pale green, and thickly netted ; rind thin ; 

 flesh light green, rich, sweet, melting, and highly per- 

 fumed. 



The Nutmeg Melon has been long in cultivation, and is 

 almost everywhere to be found in the vegetable-garden, 

 though seldom in a perfectly unmixed state. When the 

 variety is pure, and the fruit perfectly ripened, it is of most 

 delicious excellence, and deservedly ranked as one of " the 

 best." 



Pine-apple. Form roundish, inclining to oval, either 



without ribs, or with rib-markings faintly de- 

 fined ; size small, the average diameter being nearly five 

 inches and a half; skin olive-green, with net-markings more 

 or less abundant ; rind thin ; flesh green, melting, "sweet, 

 and perfumed. Season early. 



It is an excellent sort, easily grown, and very productive. 



Skillman's This variety much resembles the Pine- 



Fine-netted. app i e> Form rounded, flattened slightly at 

 the ends ; flesh green, sugary, melting, and excellent. It 

 has been pronounced " the earliest of the green-fleshed sorts." 



