104  Cassaba  and  Honey  Dew  Melons.  {^InZy^mT' 
Street),  running  to  a  depth  of  46  feet.  The  price  asked  is  $200 
per  annum  on  irredeemable  ground  rent,  or  if  redeemed  in  ten  years 
such  a  capital  sum  as  will  produce  $200  per  annum,  and  in  either 
case  will  expect  $1000  for  the  buildings  now  on  the  lot,  making  a 
sum  total  of  $4,333-33-  It  is  the  opinion  of  your  Committee  that 
this  lot  should  be  purchased,  and  no  doubt  Abraham  Miller,  the 
owner,  will  allow  some  reduction  in  the  price  of  the  buildings." 
The  committee  was  authorized  to  offer  Abraham  Miller  $225  per 
annum  for  the  lot,  the  ground  rent  redeemable  in  twenty  years,  for 
rhe  sum  of  $4,500,  and  the  committee  further  authorized  to  obtain 
subscribers  to  a  loan  at  6  per  cent,  interest  for  the  purpose  of  erect- 
ing a  building  on  the  said  lot. 
Abraham  Miller,  having  accepted  the  above  offer,  the.  com- 
mittee was  directed  to  proceed  with  the  erection  of  the  building, 
and  in  1833,  the  College  erected  a  four-story  building,  with  a  front- 
age of  30  feet  wide  and  a  depth  of  46  feet.  The  first  and  second 
stories  were  built  with  high  ceilings  for  lecture  rooms,  in  an  amphi- 
theater arrangement.  This  modest  first  home  owned  by  the  College 
was  erected  at  a  cost  of  $8,323.74. 
STUDIES  ON  THE  CASSABA  AND  HONEY  DEW 
MELONS.* 
By  Heber  W.  Youngken,  Ph.D. 
During  the  late  autumn  and  winter  of  recent  years  the  writer 
has  noticed  in  a  few  of  the  local  markets  two  luscious  fruits  which 
dealers  sold  under  the  name  of  "Cassaba"  and  "Honey  Dew 
Melons,"  or  by  the  collective  name  of  "Winter  Melons."  Their 
general  external  appearance  indicated  that  they  were  fruits  of  the 
CucurbitacecE,  but  inquiry  in  the  local  market  failed  to  elicit  in- 
formation as  to  their  botanical  origin  and  history.  The  only  data 
procurable  from  this  source  was  to  the  effect  that  they  came  from 
California  and  Colorado  respectively,  and  were  of  excellent  keep- 
ing quality. 
The  scant  references  to  these  melons  in  American  and  English 
works  on  horticulture  were  far  from  satisfying,  and  prompted  this 
*  Read  at  meeting  of  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical  Association,  Har- 
risburg,  Pa.,  June  24,  1920. 
