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 . the watermelonboth belong to the natural order Citcurbitacecv. fromthe Latin, Cucitrbita, meaning a gourd. This order-contains plants that are mostly tendril-bearingherbs, with succulent but not fleshy herbage, wateryjuice, alternate palmately ribbed and mostly lobedor angled leaves, monoecious or sometimes dioe-cious flowers; monoecious, when flowers of bothsexes are born
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 . the watermelonboth belong to the natural order Citcurbitacecv. fromthe Latin, Cucitrbita, meaning a gourd. This order-contains plants that are mostly tendril-bearingherbs, with succulent but not fleshy herbage, wateryjuice, alternate palmately ribbed and mostly lobedor angled leaves, monoecious or sometimes dioe-cious flowers; monoecious, when flowers of bothsexes are borne upon the same plant but only one History of the Massachusetts Horticultural Botany. HISTORV AM) ItOTAXV OF THE MELON 3 sex in the same tlower; dioecious, when the twosexes are borne on different plants, as is the casewith tlie poplars, willows, etc., in which case oneplant is fertile and the other is sterile, althoitghboth are necessary to the production of fruit. In the melons, the flowers are usually monoecious,the calyx coherent with the ovary, corolla morecommonly monopetalous—united into one—andstamens usually three, of which one has a one-celled, the others two-celled anthers, but the an-. Fig. 1. Muskmelon vine showing female blossom at «, and maleblossom at b. thers are commonly tortuous, twisted and often allcombined in a head and the filaments sometimes allunited in a tube or column. In the muskmelon,the sterile or male flowers are borne in clusters withshort stems, the fertile ones are solitary and mostlyon short stems in the axil of the leaves. (See ) In the watermelon the two kinds of flowersare solitary in the axil of the leaves. The inuskmelon belongs to the genus Ciicumis, towhich belongs the cultivated cucumber of our gar-dens, and Linnreus gave it the specific name ^ mclo is therefore its botanical name. Its 4 MELON CLLTLRE leaves differ somewhat from those of the water-melon in that they are roundish, heart-shaped ork
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