Identifier: gardenforestjour91896sarg (find matches)
Title: Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Sargent, Charles Sprague, 1841-1927
Subjects: Botany Gardening Forests and forestry
Publisher: New York : The Garden and forest publishing co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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embrane and light seeds, rub the heavy seeds in a napkinand dry in the house. Preserve the seeds in a bottle and labelcarefully. Such seeds will germinate after a number of years.A good melon will yield 500 to 600 assorted seeds that oughtall to grow. The Taylor Cantaloupe of Persia was called after a Mr. Taylor particularly adapted (o its propagation. It soon degeneratedin New Jersey where it was grown. I have stated that this was a conspicuously poor year forCantaloupes, and yet I had sent me the largest-seeded andfinest hybrid melon I have ever seen—the handsomest largemelon and the beau ideal of a green-fleshed melon. I havenever seen as fine flesh in a melon six and a half inches long,although I have in fruits of half a pound in weight. This can-taloupe was egg-shaped and densely netted all over (it alsogrew on its end). It was ripe to the rind, which was grass-green in color, and had a wonderfully fine smell and taste.Such a growth would be a great acquisition to the horticul-
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Fig. 53-—Diervilla Japonica.—See page 404. who was many years in the State Department at Washing-ton. He distributed the seeds, and the variety was grown forthe market for more than thirty years. It was a large cylin-drical melon, densely netted, golden when ripe, green-fleshed (sometimes butter-colored), good-flavored, andweighed up to twenty-five pounds. I obtained the seed of onethat was nineteen inches long and weighed nineteen pounds.The variety had then been grown some twenty-five years. Itappears to have quite run out, or to have degenerated mate-rially. When of large size it was a conspicuous object on adinner table. The soil of Washington seems to have been turist, provided the seed could be depended on to produce itskind. Unfortunately, the hybrid, which weighed seven and ahalf pounds and was one and three-quarter inches thick in theflesh, had a very large share of unfertilized seeds and wasalone in its growth. The seed that produced it was from aLouisiana Acme, which yi

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