The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 611
flavour was very nearly as good as thatof the Black Hamburgh. — Cond. Large Puirtpkins. — Sir, Seeing in your Magazine of December last,No. 23., an account of a pumpkin grown by Mr. Thomson, whichweighed, when ripe, half a hundred, I beg to inform you that I grew one inthe garden at Broomhall, near… … 600 Domestic Notices: — Scotland. Large Melon.— A Cantaloup melon has been raised by Edward King,gardener to John Buckle, Esq., of the Wildlands, near Chepstow, measuring341 in. in circumference, and weighing 151b. 2 oz. (JVeivsp.) Large Cucumber. — A cucumber (the Bloors White Spine) was cut onthe…
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