CANTALOUP. OR ROCK MELONS 431 



Passy Cantaloup Melon. 



and considerably smaller. The skin is not warty, but simply 

 spotted with darker green on a light green ground, especially 

 on the parts of the fruit 

 which are exposed to the 

 sun. The fruit seldom ex- 

 ceeds 4 in., or a little 

 more, in diameter, and the 

 average weight is from one 

 pound and a half to one 

 pound and three-quarters 

 at the most. The flesh is 

 red, thick, sugary, and of 

 a very uniformly good 

 quality, even in fruit which 

 ripen late in autumn.^, 



C. Prescott a Ecorce 

 Mince. — A handsome 

 variety, more spherical in 

 shape than most of the 

 Prescott Cantaloups com- 

 monly grown about Paris, 

 and yet coming very near the Sugar Cantaloup, which is also 

 distinguished by the thinness of the skin. 



C. Prescott Cul de Singe.— In this variety the eye of the 

 fruit is considerably enlarged, the part of the fruit around it 

 being swollen in such a manner as to give the fruit something 



of the appearance of a Turk's-Cap 

 Gourd. This peculiarity of shape being 

 sometimes found to be accidentally 

 accompanied with a remarkably good 

 quality in the fruit, has caused it 

 to be much sought after by some 

 amateurs, but there is really no 

 necessary connection between the two 

 things, since quite as good fruit are 

 found amongst the ordinary varieties 

 of Prescott Melons. The peculiar 

 shape, moreover, is not confined to 

 this variety, as it occasionally occurs 

 in the Sugar and other Cantaloup 

 Melons, and even in the Netted Melons, 



Sweet-scented, or Queen Anne's jg ^^^^^ f^^^^ accompanied 



Pocket, Melon (A natural size; . • i i • - r 



fruit, V natural size). With an mvariable improvement of 



quality in any variety. 

 Queen Anne's Pocket Melon, or Pomegranate Melon.— A 

 slender climbing plant of light foliage, the leaf more or less deeply 



