and flattened. Colour, golden-yellow, flushed with 

 brownish-red and with broad, indistinct stripes. 

 Flesh, firm, yellow, juicy, of excellent flavour. Eye 

 closed in a wide, slightly ribbed basin. Stem, short, 

 in a very narrow deep russet cavity. Growth, moderate ; 

 fertile. Leaf, oval, sharply pointed, held stiffly up, 

 upfolded, twisted, bi-serrate, dark green. Origin, 

 this was distributed in error with grafts of Norfolk 

 Beauty, and is therefore occasionally confused with 

 that sort. Of no particular merit. 



Mela Januria : see Reinette du Canada. 



MELON. New York, I., 204. Dessert, December 

 to January, medium to large, 3 by 2f, round conical. 

 Colour, pale yellow with carmine flush and stripes. 

 Flesh, pale yellow, tender, juicy, somewhat aromatic. 

 Eye, open or closed, in a small basin. Stem, long and 

 slender, in a deep and narrow cavity. Growth, moder- 

 ate ; fertile. Leaf, light green, flat, undulating, coarsely 

 curved serrate. Origin, raised in East Bloomfield, 

 Ontario, in the orchard of Heman Chapin, and intro- 

 duced by Messrs. Ellwanger & Barry, in 1845 ; it was 

 introduced into England about 1850. A good useful 

 late fruit now seldom met with. 



Melville Pippin : see Scarlet Pearmain. 



MERE DE MENAGE. Culinary, till March, very 

 large, 3j by 2j, flat conical, very irregular. Colour, 

 yellowish-green almost covered with dull brown crimson 

 and darker broad stripes, and conspicuous white dots 

 widely spaced. Flesh, firm, greenish, acid. Eye, 

 closed in a broad much ribbed, and chanelled basin. 

 Stem, very short and stout, in a wide, irregular, much 

 russeted cavity. Growth vigorous, makes a large 

 spreading tree ; fertility moderate. Leaf, very large, 

 curved serrate, little undulating, flat, grey-green. 

 Origin, most probably Continental, but not the Mere de 

 Manage of France. It is grown in Belgium as Queen 

 Emma and under other names. Much grown in East 

 Anglia. A useful kitchen fruit, keeping well. 



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