. Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden for 1878. Nursery stock Massachusetts Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Kitchen gardens Catalogs. MATEUH ^CULTIVATOR'S ^UIDE. ^ â '6 odor when bruised or roughly liandled. The young pods are tlie parts of the plants used. These are produced in great abundance, and should fie gathered when about half grown, or while tender and succulent. After the hardening of the liesh, they are worthless. Thev are used for pickles, and by inany are consitlered superior to the Cucumber, or anv other vegetable emploj'ed
. Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden for 1878. Nursery stock Massachusetts Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Kitchen gardens Catalogs. MATEUH ^CULTIVATOR'S ^UIDE. ^ â '6 odor when bruised or roughly liandled. The young pods are tlie parts of the plants used. These are produced in great abundance, and should fie gathered when about half grown, or while tender and succulent. After the hardening of the liesh, they are worthless. Thev are used for pickles, and by inany are consitlered superior to the Cucumber, or anv other vegetable emploj'ed for that purpose. Calture. â The Martynia is of easy culture. As the plants are large and spreading, they should be two and a half feet apart in each direction. The seeds mav be sown in" April or May, in the open ground, where they are to remain; or the seeds iMy be sown earlier in a hotbed, and transplanted. â , per Iilartyniaa Per pkt., 10 . .40 7. level. Chris tiana< LARGE MUSK MELON. CITRON WATER-MELON. MELON, MUSK (Cucumis Melo). German, Mehne. â French, Melon. â Spanish, Mdm. The Jfelon, in some character, is to be found in all tropical countries: the finest varieties are supposed to have come from Persia and Afghanistan. The delicious flavor and perfume make it very popular in aU countries where the climate will admit of its cultivation. Culture. â Plant in hills six feet apart each wav, eight or ten seeds in each, and thin out to three or four plants when in a state of forwardness. To grow good melons, the hills should be prenared by digging out the soil from one and a half to two feet deep, and two or three feet broad, according to the richness of the land. Add a very liberal quantity of the best decomposed stable-manure, and mix well with the soil, filling up a little above the Seeds should not be pat into the hills until the weather becomes settled and warm. per oz. Form roundish; size rather small; flesh vellow, sweet, juicy, and of go
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