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found the former remedy very effectual. In the case of plants 

 growing in pits or frames great care should be taken in watering, 

 and especially at closing time not to syringe too heavily, only 

 just damping around the edges of the frames or walls of the pits. 

 Increase the temperature by renewing the linings. 



Varieties of Melons. — Scarlet Flesh Varieties. — Blenheim 

 Orange, Triumph, Al, Hamstead Park seedling, and Beauty of 

 Sion, the last-named variety being excellent for pot culture. 

 Green Flesh. — Monarch, La Favorite, Golden Perfection, and 

 High Cross Hybrid. White Flesh Varieties. —Hero of Lock- 

 inge, Longleat Perfection, and Osmaston Manor Hybrid. Two 

 good Melons for market purposes are Hero of Lockinge and 

 Sutton's A 1. 



SUMMER SALADINGS. 



By Mr. W. Iggulden, F.R.H.S. 



[Bead March 24, 1896.] 



*VVe are not a salad-eating nation, or, at any rate, we cannot 

 compare ourselves in this respect with some of our Continental 

 neighbours ; we are, for instance, immeasurably behind the 

 French both in our appreciation of saladings and also in our 

 methods of culture. But, for all that, a good salad, composed of 

 a few well-grown materials, and accompanied by a dressing not 

 over-done with oil, never goes a-begging among us ; and if it 

 were more often forthcoming, it would tend to still further 

 popularise saladings. It is during the summer months that 

 salads are most appreciated, and when too, fortunately, there is» 

 or ought to be, a wealth of suitable materials for making them 

 within an easy reach of all. What these materials are, and how 

 to produce them, is to form the subject of this lecture. They 

 consist principally of Lettuce, Onion, Mustard and Cress, Cucum- 

 ber, and Tomato ; and Lettuce, forming as it does the basis of 

 almost all good salads, must be spoken of first. 



As far as the metropolitan and principal provincial markets 

 are concerned we may safely assume that they are well supplied 

 with good Lettuces all through the summer. So also are the 

 majority of private places where professional gardeners are 



