. American journal of pharmacy. Fig. 3. (ass;il>;i Melon cut crosswise tn show internal appearance. llundreds of acres are now grown each year in the San Fer-nando valley of Southern California. They are shipped to the mar-kets of this country mainly in October, November and December. The IToney Dew Melon is an old South of France variety ofthe Winter Melon renamed. \ilmorin. of Paris, has listed it fora number of years under the name of the White Antibes WinterMelon. At the present time it is extensively grown in Colorado. io8 Cassaba ami Huiicv Dew McIods. 1 Am. Jour. Pharm.( February, 19
. American journal of pharmacy. Fig. 3. (ass;il>;i Melon cut crosswise tn show internal appearance. llundreds of acres are now grown each year in the San Fer-nando valley of Southern California. They are shipped to the mar-kets of this country mainly in October, November and December. The IToney Dew Melon is an old South of France variety ofthe Winter Melon renamed. \ilmorin. of Paris, has listed it fora number of years under the name of the White Antibes WinterMelon. At the present time it is extensively grown in Colorado. io8 Cassaba ami Huiicv Dew McIods. 1 Am. Jour. Pharm.( February, 1921. Dreers Garden liook for 1919, p. 8, states that it is suitable forgrowing in all places of equal latitude to Philadelphia and theWest, including Fig. 4. Honey Dew Melon cut transversely to show internal appearance. While both of these melons have been well known to and usedby the Europeans for many years, they appear, up to the present,to be little known, and only of limited use in the United rich honey-like flavor, with far more succulence and longerkeeping qualities than niuskmelons should commend them to allseeking substitutes for cantaloupes and muskmelons during theautumn and winter season, and bid fair for their more extensivefuture production in this country. CROSS STRUCTURI-: OF TITF CASS.\P.,\ MKLON. This fruit (Fig. i) is of large broadly oval shai)e from 6, 8to 9 inches long and 4 to 6 inches in thickness. Its outer skin isyellow and shows nunuTous irregular longitudinal grooves andwrinkles (Fig. 2). When cut (Fig. 3) it exhil)its a thick, whitishflesh one and one-quarter to one and one-half inches thick anda comparatively small seed cavity. In the seed cavity are to beobserved 5 placentas, each bearing
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