CANTALOUP, OR ROCK MELONS 427 



Large Rock Prescott Cantaloup Melon. 



nine pounds. A plant is generally allowed to carry only one fruit, 

 or, in rare cases, two. 



Silvery Prescott Cantaloup Melon. — This variety only differs 

 from the preceding one 

 in the colour of the ribs 

 being somewhat more 

 metallic, and in the fruit 

 being a little larger, but 

 of the same quality. The 

 two varieties are those 

 which are the most ex- 

 tensively grown by the 

 Paris market-gardeners, 

 who supply them in 

 abundance from July to 

 the end of October. As 

 the large Prescott Melons 

 are grown to an enormous 

 extent, new varieties of 

 them are of frequent 

 occurrence. Whenever a 

 particularly good fruit 

 possesses any exterior characteristic which distinguishes it, even in 

 a slight degree, from others, the cultivators aim at reproducing this 

 characteristic as indicative of the quality, and that is how a new 

 variety is often established. 



Parisian Cantaloup Melon. — A vigorous plant with short and 

 branching stem and dark green leaves, moderately cut and lobed. 



The fruit is large, 

 spherical, about 12 in. 

 in diameter, the ribs 

 being separated by 

 well-marked but very 

 shallow furrows. The 

 skin is silvery white 

 with sometimes dark 

 green blotches or warts. 

 It is very like the 

 Silver - white Prescott 

 Cantaloup Melon, the 

 most important differ- 

 ence being in the depth 

 of the flesh in com- 

 rind. It would be difficult to find 

 of flesh and thinness of rind in the 



Silvery Prescott Cantaloup Melon. 



parison with that of the 

 a Melon possessing depth 

 same degree. 



