. Melon culture : a practical treatise on the principles involved in the production of melons, both for home use and for market : including a chapter on forcing and one on insects and diseases and means of controlling the same . Melons. LIST OF VARIETIES 91 in fact, it often happens that a grower will have some particular strain which he has developed by a long process of selection and which is peculiarly adapted to his soil and situation, and he regards it as superior to the original variety, and that is often true. (See Fig. 21.) Such strains, however, often prove disappointing when the seed
. Melon culture : a practical treatise on the principles involved in the production of melons, both for home use and for market : including a chapter on forcing and one on insects and diseases and means of controlling the same . Melons. LIST OF VARIETIES 91 in fact, it often happens that a grower will have some particular strain which he has developed by a long process of selection and which is peculiarly adapted to his soil and situation, and he regards it as superior to the original variety, and that is often true. (See Fig. 21.) Such strains, however, often prove disappointing when the seed is carried to. Fig. 22. A trio of Tip Tops from the Ohio valley. other localities and planted in different soils and grown under different climatic conditions. Varieties have their preferences as to soil and climate; hence it often happens that one variety will prove valuable in one locality and very undesir- able in another. Hence, the necessity for the large number of varieties which we now have in the United States. For example, in one of the large melon districts of the middle West, the Rocky Ford. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Troop, James, 1853-. New York : Orange Judd Company
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