Show Giant Melons In Asiatic i From Consul W. Both the Avater and musk melon of are the largest I have ever Watermelons grow in each as large as a flour and musk-melons but little only the muskmelon is rounder like a These melons are raised in the bed of the as after the spring rains are over and the snows have all melted from the mountains the rivers shrink to comparative and large tracts of the bottom i land are thus The land is and in each hill where the seeds are planted a quantity of pigeon manure is mixed in with the There are people in engaged in breeding for no other purpose than to sell the manure to the melon As the melons are growing over the moist soil of what was a river for six months of the no irrigation is necessary though it seldom rains during the melon vines never dry The meat of these water and musk melons very coarse and not nearly as sweet as the melons of smaller varieties grown in other districts of this |