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    How to Grow Melons - Three Articles
    How to Grow Melons - Three Articles
    How to Grow Melons - Three Articles
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    How to Grow Melons - Three Articles

    By William Turner Turner and William Watson

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    This vintage book contains an accessible and comprehensive guide to growing melons, with information on common pitfalls, pests, fertilisation, feeding, harvesting, and much more. Written in clear, plain language and full of useful tips and interesting information, this guide is ideal for anyone with an interest in growing melons, and it would make for a great addition to collections of fruit growing literature. The chapters of this book include: 'Soil – Raising Young Plants', 'Muskmelon – Sutton's Emerald Gem', 'Soil', 'Raising Young Plants', 'Melon Culture', 'Planting', 'Setting The Fruit', 'Watering', 'Feeding', 'Gathering the Fruit', 'Insects and Mildew', 'Varieties', 'Melon Superb', 'Gathering the Fruit', etcetera. Many antiquarian books like this are becoming increasingly hard-to-come-by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this antiquarian volume now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a new prefatory introduction on fruit growing.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateApr 26, 2013
    ISBN9781444659795
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      How to Grow Melons - Three Articles - William Turner Turner

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      MELON-GROWING IN THE HOUSE

      SOIL—RAISING YOUNG PLANTS

      RIPE Melons are eagerly sought as a table luxury, whether grown on the farm or under glass, probably because there is no fruit more healthful to the human system. For two or three months of the year the markets are usually well supplied with the outdoor Melons. The earliest come from the South, while the Northern-grown fruit finishes up the season. Our Southern States have an ideal climate for the production of high-flavored Melons; Colorado also sends her full quota of Rocky Fords, which are grown better there than in any other State. A Rocky Ford grown in New York or New Jersey cannot compare with the Colorado product. This shows plainly enough that soil combined with climatic conditions has a wonderful effect on the make-up of the different fruits, in regard to quality, richness of flavor, etc. It is, however, not my intention to discuss outdoor Melon culture here, more important though it may be than my subject proper, the cultivation of Melons under glass.

      In producing Melons artificially, there is the satisfaction of having them out of season, or when there are none in the market, at which time they will be all the more appreciated. In a private establishment with a house suitable for the purpose, ripe Melons may be had for Christmas. We have here an advantage over our brother gardeners across the Atlantic, in getting much more sunlight for our fruit, for Melons will not thrive without a fair amount of sun. They have been cultivated for centuries both in the open and under glass. We learn from early history that the Melon flourished and was abundant in Persia, growing on the plains of Ispahan, and it is said to have been of excellent finish and flavor—so much so as to attract the attention of the missionaries, who then brought the seed to Rome. It was introduced into France about 1495, and brought later to England. But here it was probably not grown with much success until glass houses came into vogue. From that time on, however, it has been improved to a wonderful degree, by careful selection and systematic cross-fertilization. Within my time even the varieties that were leaders some thirty years ago, such as Colston Basset, Victory of Bath, Gilbert’s Green Flesh, Beechwood, Bromham Hall, and a few others, equally well known then, have passed. As with most other fruit, here also the hybridizers have been steadily improving upon the

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