loq VINE OR 



CUCURBITOUS CROPS 



but great care must be taken to avoid any 

 injury or check to the growth, during trans- 

 planting. 



Beginners often find it difficult to teU when a 

 watermelon is ripe. There are three recognized 

 methods, but to the practiced eye none of 

 these tests are necessary. If a melon " thumps " 

 right, that is, if it gives out a dull, flat, dead 

 sound, it is ripe, but if it rings hollow or musical 

 it is not yet ripe. The next test is the yellowish 

 cast to the side that has lain on the ground, 

 along with a hard, rough, warty skin in that 

 place; and the third is the way the melon 

 "gives" under pressure of the hand. The last 

 test should never be applied to melons intended 

 for the market, because it bruises them inside. 



What is caUed vegetable citron in this country- 

 is nothing but a variety of watermelon with 

 flesh too hard to be eaten. It is not the true 

 commercial citron, which is the fruit of a tree 

 like the orange or lemon. 



Insects or diseases the same as in cucumber. 

 If you must know more of watermelon culture, 

 get Bulletin 38, Georgia Exp. Station. 



PUMPKIN AND SQUASH. 



Although so closely aUied, pumpkins and 

 squash do not usually cross, despite the com- 



