. American homes and gardens. y great quan-tities in the markets of Hongkong. Themelons themselves are not used to a greatextent for food and not at all for medicinalpurposes and must not be confounded withthe American variety of the latter is grown to a limited extent atCastle Peak, near Hongkong, from Ameri-can seeds. There are two kinds of these melonseeds which find ready acceptance amongthe Chinese, namely, red and black. Thered are deemed the best and bring, ac-cording to grade, $8 to $15 per picul of133 1-3 pounds and the black are valuedin the same way from $5 to $7 per
. American homes and gardens. y great quan-tities in the markets of Hongkong. Themelons themselves are not used to a greatextent for food and not at all for medicinalpurposes and must not be confounded withthe American variety of the latter is grown to a limited extent atCastle Peak, near Hongkong, from Ameri-can seeds. There are two kinds of these melonseeds which find ready acceptance amongthe Chinese, namely, red and black. Thered are deemed the best and bring, ac-cording to grade, $8 to $15 per picul of133 1-3 pounds and the black are valuedin the same way from $5 to $7 per picul,gold currency. In 1910, the value of theseseeds exported amounted to $297,914, andlast year the value was $249,498, gold cur-rency. It is impossible to state the pro-portion going to the United States, but itis undoubtedly considerable, as the Chineseare very partial to this product and do notconsider dinners, festivals, or other cere-monies complete without a liberal supply. January, 1913 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS Vll. AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS FORFEBRUARY, 1913 THE readers of American Homes and Gardens haveexpressed so much interest in the many articles on oldfurniture, ceramics, old silverware and other subjects dearto the heart of the collector, which have appeared in itspages, will welcome the announcement that a greater amountof space is to be given to material of interest to the collectorin the future issues of the magazine than heretofore. Aregular department for the collector will be one of thefeatures of American Homes and Gardens and others interested in antiques, old prints, auto-graphs, in fact in any field having to do with the embellish-ment of the home, are invited to address the editor in anymatters connected with collecting on which they wish in-formation. These will gladly be furnished if stamps areenclosed for postage on replies. THE February number of American Homes andGardens will describe the home of an American col-lector of
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