VI. LIST OP FRUITS. 



Early Cantaleupe, Early Leopard, Early Polignac, Early 

 Romana, Green-fleshed, netted, Green-fleshed, rock, Bosse" s 

 Early rock, Black rock, Silver rock, Scar Let -fleshed rock. In 

 America, there is a melon of oblong shape, of small 

 size, and of most delicate flavour. They call it the 

 nutmeg melon j the vines are very slender. It is quick 

 in bearing, its colour, when ripe, is of a greenish yellow, 

 and its flesh very nearly approaching to white. This is 

 the finest melon tjiat I ever tasted. The great things 

 that come from France sometimes, are very little better 

 than a squash or a pumpkin. I had some white-coated 

 melons the seed of which came from Spain : they weighed 

 from eight to twelve pounds a-piece j but were, in point 

 of flavour, not a bit better than a white turnip. The 

 rock melons of various sorts are, in my opinion, but very 

 poor things ; there is no part of them, except just the 

 middle, that is not hard, unless you let the fruit remain 

 till it be nearly rotten. Indeed all the red-fleshed melons 

 are hard; and I never have seen any melon of that descrip- 

 tion that I really liked to eat. The little American melon 

 which is grown there in great quantities in the natural 

 ground, may be eaten all out with a spoon, leaving a 

 rind at least not thicker than a shilling : it has twice the 

 quantity of eatable pulp as a great rock melon. But 

 there is the water-melon, resembling other melons only 

 in its manner of growing, and somewhat in the shape 

 and size of the leaf. The size of these may be put 

 down at from ten to thirty pounds weight. The flesh 

 is not at all like that of other melons. From the skin 

 inwards, an inch wide, it is white, like the flesh of a green 

 cucumber, but harder j after that, towards the centre of 

 the fruit, come ribs resembling long honey-combs, and, 



