Honfleur melon, Cucumis melo. Ancient variety of melon from Normandy, France, now disappeared. Le sucrin de Honfleur. Melons d’Honfleur. Handcoloured steel engraving printed by F. Chardon from Achille Comte’s Musee d’Histoire Naturelle, Museum of Natural History, Gustave Hazard, Paris, 1854.

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