New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-09
ALMOST WATERMELON TINE.
A misunderstood AND UNAPPRBcrATED
PRODUCT
Frorn The Charleston News ani conr!er

From The Charleston News and Courier.
The watermelon has again made rs appearance
IN the fruit-sto-e windows. nat very little can be
ton 30 far. The majority Of them look suspicousy
like they have been saved from last year, and are
now offered TO the public IN Il puipy. not 10 say
spongy and unpalatable state. Furthermore. they
are small and uninyng IL. fugseSns sf -, ana al
~ little melons that come late IN the season are so
The fact Of the business is nat watermelon is
out Of season yet. and nothing that ever was oui
OF season can DO NOR u'"i"rsn'S o.e ~
straw hat az Christmas. the hav fever in February
or skates in June are timely ond appropriate pc
side watermelon three weeks before IL IS dae. II
is all right that the big northern restaurants
xnrM Knows that they belong 20 May That is
lust enterprise, and IS appreciated as sucn. bnl an
Ing than "A small boy with hg cigar. The rea!
season opens some time in June gna lasts uhtil
baif months or thereabouts during which y Is one
81 the most paatable refreshing, ail-satlsiying
The Watermelon never has been thoroughly IN
derstocd and appreciate o, ,ops ,bndan, prot
uct OF .,e ,@rciai world there is a tendency
derrafe IT, socially speaking: kterybody eats H.
snd enjoys II, but its very abundance mas mace u
anp until II has come to the pass where II IS
itnd mon i'm pOlite circles sort Of poor man
fruit not exactly 1T for me taoi" =" me pA l'",'
and vet little too good 10 be sent 10 me seryali,
Immorists have made jest Of It, ana cartoons
80 Exhausted the supply Of sad Jokes an,ul H.
as the eo9rf deeac o would have retired from
az ~ fashionable life long ago, ana no'ilhS, u,it
-. sterling qualities have enabled II /" "''" 10
pnov, nue, be admitted that the WATERING on mas 4
II AL IN contend with. The wholesale h.Iin'i
iea,rh I, 70 handled by the carload Is ci'lculateu
IN VIZ - ,,ndcrrafe IT, To arrive AT q proper
20 hns Of its virtues II Is necessary to cuii
a, acnIaintance with it. out IN the country
va,e az ho,h from big melon farms ana the ialiioau
,,bora II ceases 10 be an afCi' v yr ,i - .,,,h
wleio ~ snlace and a comfort TO tell me ruin,
pecoi'..r never at its best Wheh cal'h
q from AN old Southern farm. ney ma "aso
&C. same flavor 20 some tAtent "H,r,n, ~. sro
lived up to the helpless Guy H"n' 90, -, 10 Ia
hei'. 81. lame thing BY any manner OF means IN
Hot the watermelon Shoniu De- 'dt,I
10y off The Vine just as the Hsh ~ ~ o,
onIv when fresh from the water itciI ~
n,ia In the cities in edible cOh1luon, ~ III
rILhn.es Of the dew is on the ih,iVl Jua.' -, ~
r Flint OF the scales is OF the isn 20 nn,"
nai..arr,elon that is perfect IN every ~. hos,
Ions are grown IN patches planted " ca'ttus
DlSlo.noa snots I'm the centre or old straw Heius
1.,,b strings stretched across mem ~ ,ti ,nnn
before sunrise. while the deW ~ sun i
~ ,nlSS,ened country spring that bubbles up , De-
tween the ROOFS VI e''''
OF d s'aaeSmeJon that has been put ihroush 'ne
freezing process Is as ',e Nature never in
'ehus" and Il is never than hair as nice as "a
Neon that has lain from suhrfs nt Ine ana Is
1ci oshh "a The big house In wheelnarroW ny d
nroushaL ~ ~ and ia cut into long slices on tne
ILL., shelf or the back veranda linen IL ~ a'P MP
arSsct and the man VINO peVo'S q, ororin o.
II I'm that way mas MS 'e'P -
gsnrc are few questions ABOUT Wmnn n,rs ,aa
JneIc az mvch controversy as that OF the compaIA-
,ys qualities Of the different varieties Oh