A RUST RESISTING CANTALOUPE. 
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that our native plants and weeds are so little affected by adverse 
conditions, while our cultivated crops are so susceptible. For 
many generations under cultivation, they have been developed for 
certain purposes, and the vital line of selection has been neglected. 
This is especially true in regard to some cultivated flowering 
plants; their existence depends entirely upon the care and protec¬ 
tion of man. If they were left to their natural enemies, they 
would soon become extinct. 
No work in connection with agriculture is so important in its 
results as that of seed selection. Too long it has been merely seed 
Plate VI. Single plant that produced sixteen large cantaloupes. 
saving , and if selection has been considered it has been along nar¬ 
row lines, perhaps size, form or appearance has been considered 
at the expense of quality, or possibly it has been the quality at the 
expense of vitality. 
A standard of perfection covering all the essential points in 
the development of a perfect cantaloupe would assist the grower 
in keeping his selection so balanced as to strengthen or build up 
any weakness, his strain of seed might reveal. To this end the 
following points might be considered as a schedule for selection. 
