ber, and not a cross between the cucumber and melon, as the Kew label would lead one to believe. Cucumbers and melons are extremely variable in size, color, habit, and flavor; we have seen, in- deed, a figure of a cucumber of the ordinary form and a globular fruit, half cucumber and half melon,… … tilized with pollen from some Little Heath melons which were growing in the same house. In Darwin's " Animals and Plants under Domestication," we read that there is a race of melons of which the fruit is so like that of the cucumber, both externally and internally, that it is scarcely possible to…
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