. Cantaloupe culture : a treatise on cantaloupe growing under irrigation in Colorado. Melons. CANTALOUPE CULTURE AND PEDIGREED CANTALOUPE SEED. has a very solid flesh when first ripe which requires several days to mellow up. It has a decided flavor distinct from the Gems. It is a late maturing strain, and is quite subject to the "rust" and the tendency to crack are the principal drawbacks to the strain. Over a hundred varieties of cantaloupes and muskmelons have been tried in the tests on the Experiment Station at Rocky Ford including many of the foreign introductions and not any hav
. Cantaloupe culture : a treatise on cantaloupe growing under irrigation in Colorado. Melons. CANTALOUPE CULTURE AND PEDIGREED CANTALOUPE SEED. has a very solid flesh when first ripe which requires several days to mellow up. It has a decided flavor distinct from the Gems. It is a late maturing strain, and is quite subject to the "rust" and the tendency to crack are the principal drawbacks to the strain. Over a hundred varieties of cantaloupes and muskmelons have been tried in the tests on the Experiment Station at Rocky Ford including many of the foreign introductions and not any have shown a superior trait to those above mentioned. There are several artificial crosses that have been made, between the Pollock and the Early Watters with a view to combining the disease resist- ance and early production of the two, one of these crosses made by the Rocky Ford Cantaloupe Breeders' Association, known as Early-Rust-Re- sistant No. 2, is a very promising hybrid, for two years it has shown as early maturity as the Watters strain and as disease resistance as the Pol- lock. The melon is very much a combination of the two strains, except it is green fleshed like the Watters. There is also several crosses of the Osage type with the Pollock and Ryan's Early Strain, these have not been grown long enough to determine the results. To those who may be interested in making cantaloupe hybrids we reprint the methods of artificial fertilization from Colorado Experiment Station Bulletin No. 126, Cantaloupe Colo. Exp. Sta. Plate 16—Contrasts in Internal Qualities. Selections from Different Individual Plants. 27. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Blinn, Philo K. , 1869-; Rocky Ford Cantaloupe Seed Breeder's Association. Rocky Ford, Colo. : The Rocky Ford Cantaloupe Seed Breeders' Asso
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