. How to make the garden pay [microform]. Gardening. melon generally dries up and dies just about at the time when the melon ripens; but this is not always the case, and hence the sign is not infallible. A safer indication even than this is the turning of the whitish underside of the fruit (where it rests upon. that the soil, if anything, should be warmer and richer, and the hills made from six to ten feet apart each way, according to vigor of variety and strength of soil. the ground) to a sort of cream color. Experienced growers and dealers simply snap the melon with the middle finger, and te
. How to make the garden pay [microform]. Gardening. melon generally dries up and dies just about at the time when the melon ripens; but this is not always the case, and hence the sign is not infallible. A safer indication even than this is the turning of the whitish underside of the fruit (where it rests upon. that the soil, if anything, should be warmer and richer, and the hills made from six to ten feet apart each way, according to vigor of variety and strength of soil. the ground) to a sort of cream color. Experienced growers and dealers simply snap the melon with the middle finger, and tell the ripe from the immature melon by the difference of sound. The skin of the melon also becomes somewhat duller in color when. 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 Greiner, Tuisco, 1846-. Philadelphia : Wm. Henry Maule
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