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• They are generally considered injurious ; but a toad or two, if put in 

 the frames, will soon devour them. — Cond. 



Seeds of the following Species and Varieties of the Melon Family are 

 wanted by a correspondent, a private gentleman, who is devoting himself 

 to the culture of Cucurbitacese. They may be addressed to J. C. K., and 

 left with Mr. Charlwood, Russell Street, Covent Garden, who will pay for 

 them. 



Melons named in Encyc. of Gard., Montague Cantaloup, Early Golden 

 Cantaloup, Smooth Scarlet-fleshed Cantaloup, Fair's Romana, Oval Ro- 

 mana, Small Portugal or Dormer, Black Portugal or Galloway, Dampsha, 

 Salonica, Sweet Melon of Ispahan, Polignac. 



Melons mentioned by Abercrombie and others. Musk oblong ribbed netted, 

 Oblong smooth-rinded, Round smooth green-rinded, Round white-rinded. 



Melons named in Hortus Keiuensis. Early Leopard, Bosse's Early Rock. 



Melons brought to- England by Dr. Walsh. Round snow-white Gourd, 

 from Constantinople, and an extremely delicate Melon from Angora. 



Melons grown by, or Fruits sent to, the Horticultural Society. Hewson's 

 Emperor, a new variety, ten sorts of Persian Melon, Daree or Datee Per- 

 sian Melon, Sir Gore Ouseley's Persian Melon, Melon d'Ananos, Gurmuck, 

 Smooth Valparaiso. 



Melons groiun by the Horticultural Society. Syrian Cucumber, Napal 

 Cucumber, weighing 12 lb., Fluted Cucumber from China. 



Miscellaneous Melons. Zatte small round Melon, Surinam, Melksham, 

 Willox's Fame, Purvis's netted Romana, Wimbledon, Green-flesh, small 

 American Nutmeg. 



Various Species of Cucurbitdcece. Cucumis Chate, or Broad-leaved Egyp- 

 tian ; C. prophetarum, with green and yellow stripes, bitter ; C. africanus ; 

 C. acutangulus, common, eatable ; C. muricatus , C. pubescens ; C. indicus 

 striatus ; C. anguinus ,• C. maculatus ; C. operculatus ; C. J?laterium, not the 

 Momordica, Cucurbita umbellata ; C. hispida ; C. mammeata. Luffa 

 fce'tida. Melothria pendula, fruit the size of an olive. Momordica Chardntia. 

 Luffa muricata, senegalensis,operculata, cylindrica, trifoliata, pedata, lanata, 

 echinata, dioica, spicata. #icyos parviflora, vitifolia, laciniata. Trichosan- 

 thes scabra, foetidissima, nervifolia, caudata, cucumerina, tricuspidata, pilosa, 

 tuberosa, laciniata. Any of the genus Bryonia. Any other varieties of 

 Melons or Cucurbitaceae which may be considered new or scarce, or not 

 likely to have been known to me, will be highly acceptable. I am more 

 than any thing desirous of the Cucumis Chate. — J. C. K. Levant Lodge, 

 near Worcester, June 20. 1830. 



Failure of early Charlton Peas. — Sir, In answer to your worthy cor- 

 respondent Pisum, I beg leave to state it as my firm opinion, that the 

 Charlton peas were, notwithstanding the philosophical remarks of the 

 seedsman, old seed. I admit that the Charlton is a more tender pea than 

 many of the Hotspurs, as I have had them cut off by late spring frost, 

 when other sorts have suffered but slightly ; but I never knew them fail of 

 coming up when other sorts would come. It is probable that those sown 

 on the 13th of January might fail ; but those sown on the 6th of February, 

 from the favourable account given of the soil, and the weather which fol- 

 lowed, I feel convinced, would not have failed had the seed been good : at 

 the same time, I am far from saying that the seedsman knew them to be 

 old seed. However, I would recommend to Pisum, always, in future, to 

 sow a few seeds of all his principal crops in small pots, one of each sort, 

 and place them in a vinery (if he have one), or hot-bed at work, or even 

 window of a dwelling-house. This is the test by which I always try my 

 seeds ; and if, by chance, I have had them fail in the ground, and could pro- 

 duce the specimen in the pot, it has saved the credit of the seedsman, and 

 ef myself. I always sow them the same day in the pots as I sow in the 



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