The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-11-25
Spanish Melons.

A Spanish correspondent writes: The
melon grounds are disappointing. Never
would YOU believe that from those dusty,
little watered plots would come all the
wealth of succu]ent melons that lie in
heaps at every street corner The melon
grounds look like an English plowed or
fallow field, with thin carpctinE OF COM
mon vegetable marrow plants Yet here
and there you sec the great juicy round
fruit, half covered with dust, lying on the
cracking earth. All those that were ripe
wero gathered overnight. The melons
are planted in May; in less than month
they begin to bear fruit, and keep on bear
ing until the commencement OF October;
they require less water than any OF the
other plants The melon takes, from the
time that the white or yellow flower falls
off to the time of plucking. about forty
days to arrive at maturity These melons
are of two kinds-first, the melon proper,
with its yellow, luscious. honeyei fruit,
80 we'll known to the rich in England;
secondly, the sondia, or watermelon, grown
on the coarsest and most sterile soil, and
which, is the cheapest fruit in Spain, and
the salvation of the thirsty masses. The
snndiu weighs from eight to twenty-five
pounds, and is sold ut a farthing or less
per pound. Its huge bulk, its hard,
coarse looking, dark green rind, the rude
way in which it is kicked about, would
never lead YOU TO Lclicvc that it Is so
Justly priced as it is. Every traveller in
Spain has been offered slice of its rose
cOlored, rocky flesh, that looks like a
crimson rock, yet melts in Your mouth
before YOU can taste its flavor. On every
long, hot, dusty journey the second class
traveller buys huge sGndto, and oilers
slice to his fellow passengers; every table
dhote groans beneath these crimson crags;
q lump of this cools the fevcrcd blood;
two pounds may be eaten without fear of
harm. The growth of the various kinds
of melons is so much in advance of the
immediate consumption, although poor
and rich alike almost live upon them dur
ing two months of the year, that the
gardener cuts thousands just before they
arrive at maturity and hangs them up for
the winter.
The Pensacola (Fla.) CARTE says: "a
negro man in the adjoining county of
Baldwin killed large hog IN the woods.
He opened the animal, removed the en-
trails and devised a method of carrying
the pork which was altogether sui generts.
This manner of transportation was effected
by tying the hind legs together, passing
his head between them, and, the heavy
carcass being in front, easing the weight
OH his neck by lifting on the fore legs with
his hands. 1t is presumed that lie got
along remarkably we'll until a rail fence
needed h,s hands. Accordingly he re-
lieved them by lifting the hog over the top
rail and letting it drop on the other side.
It is presumed that he proposed to fol low
the hog, but he didn't. A few days since
q congregation of buzzards attracted attcn-
ton to locality where negro man
was found hanging on one side Of rail
fence and hog on the Their, the weight
of the animal evidently having pressed
his neck down upon the rail until he was
choked to DEATH"
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