CONTENTS IX 



Page 

 seeds — Time for early and late crop — 

 Training to strings or wires — Fertilizing 

 the blossoms — Market — Varieties — Insects 

 - — Diseases. 



CHAPTER X 



Insects and Diseases . • . . . 68-69 



The common forms, with remedies — Mice 

 and gophers or ground squirrels — Fungous 

 and bacterial diseases of melons — Disease- 

 resistant plants. 



CHAPTER XI 



List of Varieties 90-101 



A description of fifty-five varieties of 

 muskmelons grown out-of-doors and nine 

 foreign varieties — A list of good forcing 

 varieties grown in this country — A de- 

 scription of forty-six varieties of water- 

 melons. 



