. 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. THE SEED 23 hills, and then testing the quality of the fruit be- fore saving the seeds, the more common practice is to wait until the wagon comes from the field with a load and then to select the seed melons from this promiscuous lot. (See Fig. 4.) In this way the grower may be able to preserve the type of melon he wishes to grow at the expense of those other v
. 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. THE SEED 23 hills, and then testing the quality of the fruit be- fore saving the seeds, the more common practice is to wait until the wagon comes from the field with a load and then to select the seed melons from this promiscuous lot. (See Fig. 4.) In this way the grower may be able to preserve the type of melon he wishes to grow at the expense of those other very important qualities. This is like the old. Fig. 4. A poor Netted Gem, the result of haphazard selection of seed melons. method of saving seed corn by waiting until plant- ing time and then going to the crib and selecting the type of ear wanted without knowing anything about the kind of plant from which it came. Many experiments have been tried along this line, not only with melons, but with other crops as well, all of which tend to prove the truth of this state-,. 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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