. The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States and Canada for ornament, for fancy, for fruit and for vegetables; with keys to the natural families and genera, descriptions of the horticultural capabilities of the states and provinces and dependent islands, and sketches of eminent horticulturists . W. 1128. Fruit of Cucumis Anguria. (Xji) CUCUMIS melon odor, and keeping long. The winter muskmelonsare li
. The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States and Canada for ornament, for fancy, for fruit and for vegetables; with keys to the natural families and genera, descriptions of the horticultural capabilities of the states and provinces and dependent islands, and sketches of eminent horticulturists . W. 1128. Fruit of Cucumis Anguria. (Xji) CUCUMIS melon odor, and keeping long. The winter muskmelonsare little known in this country, although they areworthj of popularity. Much cult, in parts of the —Var. saccharinus, Naudin. Pineapple varieties of oblong shape and very sweetflesh. Not sufficiently distinct from thenex-t.—Var. reticulatus, Naudin. Nutmegor Netted Melons. Frs. softer rinded,more or less netted, or sometimes ahnostplain or smooth. Comprises the commonmuskmelons, aside from cantaloupes.—Var. cantalupensis, Naudin. Cant.\ Melons. Frs. mostlyhard-rinded, more or lesswarty, scaly or rough, oftendeeply furrowed or derived from Canta-luppi, near Rome, a former country seat of the Pope,whither this tvpe of melons was brought fromArmenia. In the U. S. the word cantaloupe is oftenused as a generic name for muskmelon, but it isproperly a name of only one group of muskmelons—the hard and scaly-rinded (see Waugh, 8:183
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