NETTED MELONS 



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The fruit is spherical in shape, 4 to 5 in. or so in diameter, and 

 usually not more than two to four pounds in weight. The skin 

 at first smooth and dull 

 white, turning to yellow as 

 the fruit ripens, becoming 

 covered also with a thin 

 network of slender lines 

 crossed at right angles. The 

 flesh is pale green, luscious, 

 sugary, and perfumed. An 

 early, rather delicate variety, 

 only succeeding about Paris 

 when grown under glass. 



Tours Netted Sugar 

 Melon. — This is a rather 

 variable kind, having:; several 

 differ 

 in the 



which 



Golden Perfection Melon. 



sub-varieties 

 from one another 

 shape of the fruit. One form 

 of it is often met with, of 

 which the fruit is oblong; but the best form appears to be that which 

 we are about to describe. This is a vigorous plant, of medium size, 

 and rather branching. Leaves large, entire or not very deeply 

 lobed, slightly folded at the edges, and a rather vivid green 

 colour ; fruit spherical, about 6 in. in diameter, devoid of ribs or 

 having them very faintly marked, and completely covered with very 

 coarse, broad, and prominent tracings, crossing one another at right 



Tours Netted Sugar 

 Melon. 



Paris Market-Garden Melon 

 (i natural size). 



angles and surrounding the fruit like a network of cords ; flesh 

 orange-red, thick, firm, and generally very good. The fruit ripens 

 half-late. A plant may carry three fruit. 



Round Netted Paris Market-Garden Melon. — A branching, 

 vigorous plant, with numerous rounded light green leaves, slightly 



