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Read about Cucumis culta in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Subspecies or var. culta, Kurz. The many forms of the cult, melon: plant very robust: fls. longer-pedunculate, 3-5 together and large: fr. large to very large, edible: widely variable; when forced under glass the Lvs. tend to be more prominently lobed. See Melon. Forms of this group may be distinguished as follows: Var. Chito, Naudin (C. Chito, Morr.). Orange Melon. Mango Melon. Melon Apple. Vine Peach. Garden Lemon. Vegetable Orange. Vine less robust than that of the musk-melon, and Lvs. smaller: fr. size, shape and color of an orange or lemon, without markings, with a white or pale yellow cucumber-like flesh, with no muskmelon odor. Not edible in its natural state, but useful for the making of preserves (or "mangoes") and pickles. Name pronounced keeto. Cf. Bull. 15, Cornell Exp. Sta.; A.G. 14:206.—The "Lemon cucumber" offered by dealers is apparently a form of C. sativus, the fruit being nearly round with yellow and green markings and smooth skin, like the lemon. — Var. Dudaim, Naudin (C. Dudaim, Linn. C. odoratlssimus, Moenoh). Dudaim Melon. Pomegranate Melon. Queen Anne's Pocket Melon. Vine small, as in the last: fr. size and shape of orange, somewhat flattened at the ends, very regular and smooth, marbled with longitudinal markings of cinnamon-brown overlying yellow, exceedingly fragrant. A most handsome gourd-like fr. and highly and deliciously perfumed. Not eaten. A nearly odorless and scarlet-rinded form is separated by Naudin as var. erythraeus.—Var. acidulus, Naudin. Cucumber Melon. Frs. oblong or cylindrical, mottled or unicolored, the flesh white and cucumber-flavored. No varieties in the American trade are of this group, but they are occasionally seen in botanical gardens and experimental grounds that import seeds of oriental plants. — Var. flexuosus, Naudin (C. flexuosus, Linn.). Snake Melon. Snake Cucumber. Fr. many times longer than broad, greenish at maturity, variously curved and furrowed. A.G. 14: 203. Fr. often 2-3 ft. long, and 1-3 in. diam. Grown mostly as an oddity, but it is useful for the making of conserves. The hard-shelled snake gourd is a Lagenaria (which see).—Var. inodorus, Naudin. Winter Melon. Lvs. lighter colored, less hairy, narrower: frs. possessing little or none of the common musk-melon odor, and keeping long. The winter muskmelons are little known in this country, although they are worthy of popularity. Much cult, in parts of the Medit. region. — Var. saccharinus, Naudin. Pineapple Melon. Comprising varieties of oblong shape and very sweet flesh. Not sufficiently distinct from the next.—Var. reticulatus, Naudin. Nutmeg or Netted Melons. Frs. softer rinded, more or less netted, or sometimes almost plain or smooth. Comprises the common muskmelons, aside from cantaloupes.— Var. cantalupensis, Naudin. Cantaloupe. Rock Melons. Frs. Mostly hard-rinded, more or less warty, scaly or rough, often deeply furrowed or grooved. Name derived from Cantaluppi, near Rome, a former country seat of the Pope, whither this type of melons was brought from Armenia. In the U. S. the word cantaloupe is often used as a generic name for muskmelon, but it is properly a name of only one group of muskmelons— the hard and scaly-rinded (see Waugh, G.F. 8:183). CH
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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