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Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Banta, Nathaniel Moore, 1867- Schneider, Albert, 1863- Higley, William Kerr, 1860-1908 Abbott, Gerard Alan
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, American Audobon association
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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ch it is native,for it is only cultivated to a very limited extent. The fruitis globular in form and quite plum-like. It varies both insize, color and flavor. When green the fruit is astringentand has a very disagreeable taste. This, however, disap-pears when the fruit becomes fully matured. THE WATERMELON The Watermelon is a native of Africa. In fact, Liv-ingston states that in Africa large areas are covered by theplants growing in a wild state, and in New Jersey andLong Island, where large fields are devoted to its cultiva-tion, the plants show a marked tendency to spread spon-taneously. The watermelon belongs to an eminently respectable butnot a particularly aristocratic family. Its near relationsare the gourd, the cucumber, the pumpkin, and the squash.There is probably no country in which this fruit is so largelycultivated as in the United States, its habitat being limited,however, to the southern and middle portions of NorthAmerica to the fourth degree of latitude. The short sea-
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