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Hardy says that wax is gathered from the outside of the stalks 

 in China. 



Mous. Le Compte Moignerie has produced perfect vinegar from 

 its juice. 



Mr. Beauregard has gathered about 30,000 lbs. of stalks off one 

 acre, from which he extracted over 10,000 quarts of sugary juice. 



Mr. Raoulx has obtained from about 100,000 lbs. of stalks, at 

 the rate of fifty to fifty-five per cent of juice. The saccharine 

 richness of the stalks does not appear to diminish by the ripening 

 of the seeds. It is therefore important to the cultivator to let 

 them get ripe, for we estimate the seed at much above one hun- 

 dred bushels per acre, and it weighs about 80 pounds a bushel. 



SEEDS OF MELONS OE ASIA MINOR. 

 Extracts from a letter by Madame the Princess Trivulce De 



Belgiojoso, to the President of the Society : 



Sir — The melons transmitted by me to the Society of Acclima- 

 tion, from my garden in Mount Parnassus street, were from seeds 

 grown on my farm in Asia Minor, situated south .west of Sinope, 

 and north west of Angora, six hours travel from the little city of 

 Saffrau-Bolo, in the Pachalic of Cassau-Bolo and twenty hours 

 from Barteu, a small harbor on the Black sea. 



These melons are a variety which I have never seen elsewhere, 

 either in Asia Minor or Syria. 



In my garden these melons flourished, yielding abundantly with 

 little culture, and the quality of the fruit good. We. took no more 

 pains with them than with cucumbers or squashes. These melons 

 are my favorite fruit, eaten at the proper point of maturity. These 

 are incomparably superior to all other melons, abounding in juice 

 which makes a delicious drink. The seeds I sowed were two years 

 old, and late, not till near the end of May, yet some of them were 

 ripe by the middle of August. A Secretary of the Turkish Em- 

 bassy, who saw some of my little melons at Pliris, said that he was 

 acquainted with them at Constantinople, where they were raised 

 under glass ! When perfectly ripe, one of them was an acceptable 

 present to our most distinguished friend. 



