An extract of M. Dela Quintiny's Letter, written to the publisher in French sometime agoe, concerning his way of ordering melons; now communicated in English for the satisfaction of several curious melonists in England

I shall now answer to that particular of your letter, which concernsmelons , as exactly as I can. All theseeds , I sent you, producemelons with a thin and somewhat embroider’d skin, not divided by ribbs: Some of them have their skin whitish, others of the colour ofslate .