New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-07-16
VARIETIES OF wArERMFLoNs AND cANTALoUPEs-
The NEW CROSS IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA
TURNS OUT WE'LL

VARIETIES OF wATERMrLoNs AND CANTALoUPEs-
The NEW CROSS IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA
TURNS OUT WE'LL.
Signs begin to multiply that the season OF
"atermelons and cramps Ia fairly under way. Every
downtown restaurant has It's huge prize specimen. un
cut In the front window and all the lunch counters
MISUNDERSTANDING slices OF the fruit invite the un-
wary Soon the street melon stands will blossom forth
with ther cheaper grades all seeds and water and the
boarding house keepers will be investing large sup
plies daily from the Mills OF NewJersey Just now the
market Is In Its first nush Of supply aud prices
Inc melons We are getting" said c. s. Palmer, OF
NO 100 Reade-st. to TRIBUNE reporter. "come chiefly
from western Florida ami Georgia Later they
viii begin to ripen In South Carolina North Carolina.
Maryland and New-Jersey. 1t will be two or tsree
weeks before the reache, its height The Georgia
and Florida crop however, has been much larger this
year than ever before Much better facilities for trans
on June the tracKrause was changed generally
to correspond with that tns Northern roads Here
toore the melons had TO b. handled four times on me
way rom Florida to NewYork Philade phia, causing
great deal OF breakage and much loss Of time.
and the fruit can he handled in bulk at Pier No 27
North River. only four days ont from Jacksonville
transportation oy steamer is slower but melons gem
erally bear voyage pretty we'll The pest melon nov
II market and the one most popular IN Georgia and
three years ago by Mr. Kob. OF Alabama and IL appsr
sny cross between tho two ordinary varieties the
Raitle.naks ard the Niger Head 1t ia. the shape OF
the one and the stripes Of the other II has Arm shell
anu tAcceht shppnf qualities and 10 as fu or melon
matter IA an egg Is Of meat This Ia the first year has
been raised extensively. The Rattesnske or long
stripe watermelon Is oval in shape and strongly
marked with parallel gray strIoea Inc
Mountain sweet Is nearly round and is colored
dark green tia grown chiefly IN New Jersey and Is
great iavorlie among the Phi ade phsns The market
cannot be called Glutted but tho supply seems already
enormous Last week 70. 900 melons In. and THIS
week easily 10000 One must take into account or
course that New York 10 the distributing centre for the
Middle states aud great part OF New-EnRand. Prices
keep up We'll ono hundred melons now bring from go
70 S5o wn"iesae The Inferior melons from South caro-
lina bring from SIC to $50 hundred.
Tho smaller melons, cantalOupes. or musk
melons ETC. will be in the market very The early
ones from Georgia and North Carolina ara selling
At from - 30 to 81 barrel. according TO
size and quality There several varieties OF these
muskmelons The Nutmeg Is well known and is really
the staple II Is round and cOlored something ike
nutmeg The Jenny Lind IA much smaller. almost the
size or an apple 1t has delicate flavor, viewer inc
cantaIoupe proper is yellow obong melon ana may
prove rather insipid on cutting The banana melon Is
another long one yellow on tho outside with pretty
combination OF orange ana pea-green the inside but
the fruit not highly favored. The Hackensack Melon
grown In New-Jrrsey IS perhaps the best OF them It's
pulp has creenish color with tnge OF yellow along
the layers OF seeds The flavor is delicate and keeps
better than the others. Raising melons both North and
South Is quite profitable. There is boom for it In
Florida Just now and good deal Of capital Is being In
vested il this business"