WATER-MELON 



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fruits, and is grown there, like the Melon, in the open air and 

 without any trouble. In the climate of Paris it requires, like the 

 Melon, the aid of artificial 

 heat ; but it is only grown 

 there as a curiosity, the 

 fruit being always insipid. 

 The only difference in the 

 culture of it from that of 

 the Melon is, that the 

 Water-Melon plants are 

 never pinched or stopped, 

 the produce being always 

 better the more freely the 

 stems are allowed to grow. 

 We have never known it 

 to be well grown in 

 England. 



Uses. — The ripe pulp 

 of the fruit is eaten raw, 

 like a Melon. Sometimes 

 the fruit is sliced, and 

 preserved either alone or 

 mixed with other kinds of 

 fruit. It is also made into 



Early Russian Water-Melon.. 



jam. Before it has ripened, it may be boiled and eaten like a 

 Vegetable Marrow. It is of great value in hot countries. 



Early Russian 

 Water - Melon. — A 

 vigorous plant, with olive- 

 green fruit, weighing 

 usually less than four 

 pounds. It is the earliest 

 of all Water - Melons, 

 ripening in ordinary 

 seasons as early as 

 August. The flesh is 

 melting and juicy. It 

 is the best of all Water- 

 Melons. 



Very Early Rodosto 

 Water- Melon (Black- 

 seeded), — Not so early 

 as the Seikon, it ripens 

 well in the climate of 



Early Rodosto Water-Melon, 



Paris. A vigorous plant, with stems lO ft. long, bearing many 

 fruit cf pale green colour, rather small, spherical, very slightly 



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