590 On the Degeneracy of Persian Melons. 



fine plants at the same age, and confined within the same 

 limits, as my houses contain, and I am quite certain that the 

 time and trouble expended in the care of these is not one 

 fourth part as much as an equal extent of Melon-beds would 

 have required during any given period of the growth of the 

 Pine Apple plants. 



