Show HAVE MELONS IN WINTER luxury ThatIs Now Attainable Through Modern Horticultural Horticul-tural Progress The Increase of our knowledge of the vegetable world has given us many good things Perhaps the most recent of these Is the winter melon which Is now becoming such n luxury and what Is still better an attainable luxury lux-ury The seeds of the winter melon came frolu Russia aey were placed In the hands of a man who had n great reputation as n horticulturist There were two t vnrle lei of muskmelon musk-melon and ono of watermelon The Russian seeds produced an exceptionally exception-ally flue muskmelon In Ilavor they are more accertabe than tho su mcr kind far more attractive from an exterior ex-terior view and crow In weight to pounds One of the features of the melons Is tint their luscious flavor does not deteilorate rs they Inc e sIn s-In size as Is often the case with th summer fruit The beauty of the winter win-ter melons Is that they are In their prime In the dead of winter when tha snow covers the northern state and nature hibernates with the thermometer thermom-eter In close proximity to zero The melons need only about one hundred days In which to mature so that seeds planted the first of May will by the first of August produce some melons which ripen on the vlnss The major portion of the crop however how-ever has to ripen after being picked The date of their ripening depends entirely upon the temperature In which they are stored If deposited In a cool place they will not ripen much before the first of the year It tho melons are desired for an earlier market mar-ket It Is only necessary to place them In a room of a living heat |