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MELONS.-C(?«/; nued. 
CARTERS’ HARDY FRAME MELON. 
It is many years since the Royal Horticultural Society awarded us their First Class 
Certificate for a Melon that could be easily grown without heat. In Carters’ Hardy Frame 
we now offer a variety specially suitable for amateurs who do not possess the convenience 
necessary for cultivating the more tender Melons. The fruits are large, ribbed, and the flesh a 
rich scarlet colour. 
“ I should like to recommend your Uardy Frame Melon. This has been a creat success ; it bears profusely, 
sets well, and is very little trouble, and the fruits are of good size and satisfactory flavour. It should become a boon 
to all those growers who only have frame room at their disposal.” — Mr. \V. Cook, Head Gardener to 
Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart. 
Tht Cultivation of Melon . — Sow for first crop in January, and plant when ready into pits or on slabs filled 
with good maiden loam and well rotted manure, adding a dressing of fine soil to the surface and bringing the 
plants as neat the light and glass as ])0ssible. It is essential that a regular temperature be secured rather than a 
high degree of heat. Keep a moist buoyant atmosphere during growth and give air freely when fruit is ripening, 
checking the supply of water to develop flavour. The frame varieties are sown later, and kept under glass until 
the season is sufficiently advanced for them to be put out on a warm heap of soil in the frame. 
Everyone who has a frame is recommended to gfive it a trial. 
Price 6d., is., .mfi is. 6d. c.ich. 
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