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quite rapidly at good prices, but was very 
careful to avoid selling auy so that any 
gardener could get the seed. On one occa- 
sion when he had a fine lot of melons in 
market I induced a friend to buy one for 
me which weighed eighteen pounds, intend- 
ing to secure the seed. Upon cutting the 
melon it proved so flavorless and poor that 
I did not care for it and gave the seeds 
away. When a year or two ago the Mon- 
treal Market Melon was announced in the 
catalogues I thought it looked suspiciously 
like the big Cantaloupe of my Baltimore 
friend, but the accounts given by the seeds- 
men induced me to give it a trial. The 
vines did well and the crop was large. So 
were the m dons, perfectly immense and 
exactly like the Cantaloupe pictures 
and we were impatient until the monsters 
ripened. The first ones pulled satisfied every 
one, and even the school boys refused to eat 
them. My seed 1 am satisfied were perfectly 
pure as I got them from an unquestionable 
source. l ain glad, however, to hear that 
it is good for something in some parts of 
the country. This shows how hard it is to 
lay down a rule for any fruit or vegetables 
which will apply to all parts of our broad 
land. My observation has led me to sus- 
pect that the green-fieslied melons general- 
ly are better suited to the Northern section 
of the country than further South. Here 
the Hackensack is better flavored than Mon- 
treal, but even this popular sort is of infer- 
ior flavor here and is far surpassed by the 
Baltimore Market and by any number of 
tiie yellow and orange fleshed kinds. The 
Emerald Gem is beyond all comparison the 
highest flavored here and I shall use it for 
the main crop, and experiment with some 
others. It is fair to state that I am not 
now growing melons for market. If I was 
I should probably grow Hackensack and 
Montreal Market, for city buyers buy more 
by their eyes than by their palates. — W. F. 
Massey. 
Ilemed)' for the melon- Vine Malady. 
[Some time since, Orchard and Garden 
took occasion to speak of the rather mys- 
terious behavior of cucumber and melon 
vines in parts of New Jersey during last 
summer. The vines acted precisely as de- 
scribed by >ur correspondent. From a thrif- 
ty and apparently healthy growth they sud- 
denly wilted, shriveled and died. A thorough 
search and investigation failed to reveal any 
insect or trace of its presence. The conclu- 
sion was at length reached that it was a 
fungus disease and Prof. Scribner wrote us 
that the fungoid character of the malady 
had been recognized and that the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture were making efforts to 
discover the true nature of the fungus. About 
this time Mr. Michael wrote us that he had 
a sure remedy for the malady and, at our re- 
quest, has given it for the benefit of our 
readers with a most implicit trust and 
confidence in its virtue. Ed.] 
About twenty years ago, when I 
was a boy living! at home along the Dela- 
ware river, about seven miles above Dela- 
ware Water Gap, it was impossible to raise 
water melons in that region. The vines 
would suddenly die just before the melons 
were ready to pick. Many remedies were 
tried but so far as I know none succeeded 
except my own. A few years passed and 
the foe to the melon vines di-appeared. I 
presume no one living in that section re- 
members my remedy. Many an hour did I 
spend searching for the enemy, but in vain. 
One day the vines would be green and thrif- 
ty, the next they would begin to wither as 
if touched by fire. I concluded that they 
were attacked in the hill and at the root. I 
thought that if the roots, or hills, could be 
carefully covered before the enemy made 
its appearance the vines might be saved. 
One day I was reflecting on the fact that 
there is no animal or insect that feeds on 
elders, and I concluded that if the hills 
were carefully covered with elder boughs 
the enemy might be baffled. I went to the 
nearest fence and cut several armfuls of 
green elders and covered a number of hills. 
The experiment proved a success. I tried 
this remedy for years and never knew it to 
fail. Every hill covered was saved, every 
hill not covered was destroyed. I remem- 
ber one year what a fine crop we had, while 
our neighbor did not have a good melon, 
although nothing but a post fence seperated 
the patches. My remedy then is this. When 
the vines are 3 or 4 feet long, and the first 
melons quite small, cover the hills carefully 
with green elders. It may be well to go 
over the field a second time, putting on 
fresh branches. This mulching will not in- 
jure the vines but will improve the crop. — 
Geo. Michael, El Paso Co., Colo. 
fomf Neglected Vegetables. 
There are several vegetables that are but 
little grown in this country and very rare- 
ly seen in market; and yet some of them 
possess a tenderness and flavor that is not 
exceeded by any of the more popular and 
better known sorts. Whilst the very limit- 
ed demand may debar the market garden- 
er from growing them there" is no reason 
why the kitchen garden should not possess 
them in moderate supply for family use. 
Brussels Sprouts is one of these fine sorts, 
equaling the Cauliflower in flavor, and its 
culture is very simple. The seeds may be 
sown early in May and the plants trans- 
planted in July, to two feet apart, and cul- 
tivated like the cabbage. The sprouts clus- 
ter thickly around the stem, resembling 
miniature cabbages, and when touched 
with frost in the autumn are delicious and 
tender. The Globe Artichoke is not so well 
known as it should be. The edible portion 
is the heads or blossoms of the plant which 
are shown in the illustration Fig. 838. It is 
a perennial and a bed of them will continue 
in bearing for some years, requiring how- 
ever a winter covering of strawy manure or 
similar protection. The seed may be sown 
now and the young plants set out next 
spring, in rows about three feet apart and 
two feet apart in the rows. 
It makes success; it leads it to 
Continuous ovation. 
If you can point to what you do 
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