HOME VEGETABLE GARDENING 
MUSKMELONS— BEST ORANGE OR SALMON 
FLESHED SORTS 
HESE are suggestively the most desirable for the 
home garden, have thicker flesh and are of superior 
flavor and aroma when compared with the green-fleshed 
kinds. They are particularly well adapted to cool sec- 
tions. In warm localities they must be picked promptly, 
when ripe, or the hot sun will quickly turn the flesh soft. 
Emerald Gem is the best known and most widely grown 
of this class. The melons are small, heavily ribbed, 
sometimes slightly netted. Skin is green and turns to 
a yellowish brown as the fruits ripen. It matures in 
about ninety-five days, being one of the earliest. 
Burrell’s Gem shown above has often been termed the 
golden-fleshed Rockyford. It is of typical Rockyford 
shape, well netted, with thick flesh of highest quality. 
For light, warm, sandy soils where other salmon-fleshed 
sorts disappoint, the new Fordhook will be found of great 
value. Tip Top is one of the largest in this class. 
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