Identifier: manualofeverythi18pete_0 (find matches)
Title: Manual of everything for the garden : 1894
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Peter Henderson & Co Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Seed industry and trade Catalogs Seeds Catalogs Flowers Seeds Catalogs Plants, Ornamental Catalogs Vegetables Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: New York : Peter Henderson & Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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Copyrighted, 1890, by Peter Henderson & Co. HE BANQUET MUSK MELON. FOR GENERAL LIST OF MUSK MELONS, SEE NEXT PAGE. 36 PETE** HEriDE^SOfl 8t CO., JSlEW YOf^.— VEGETRBLtE SEEDS.
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S^:.. MELON, ••• MUSK. German, Melone.—French, Melon.—Spanish, Melon. 1 oz. for 60 hills; 2 to 3 lbs. in hills for an acre. Melons thrive best in a moderately enriched light soil; the hills should be from three to six feet apart each way, according to the rich-ness of the soil. If soil is poor or sandy, plant at four feet. Previous to planting, incorporate well with the soil in each hill a coupleof shovelfuls of thoroughly rotted manure ; plant twelve or fifteen seeds in each hill early in May, for latitude of New York ; for South,•earlier ; for farther North, later ; and when well up, thin out to three or four of the most promising. Pinch off the leading shoots as the growth becomes too luxuriant,and if the fruit sets too numerously thin out when young, which will increase the size of those remaining and cause them to ripen quicker. Melons may also be forcedtinder glass, like Cucumbers, but it is not often done in this country, for the reason that they can be grown and sh

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