Melon, Cucumis melo. Fruit, flower and leaf, with section through ripe fruit. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1810. The botanicals were drawn by Henriette and Conrad Westermayr, F. Götz and C. Ermer.

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Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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