Canteloupe [Archive] - FreeConservatives

Keb

08-14-2005, 02:15 PM

We had our first one for breakfast yesterday. We've been eating peaches every morning for a couple of weeks so the melon was a nice change. It was the very first melon we've ever grown and we all just looked at it as if it were a special part of our family...and then we ate it...YUM! Sweet and deeeeeelish! We have about 15 more awaiting our table.

UhUhNoWay

08-14-2005, 04:00 PM

We had our first one for breakfast yesterday. We've been eating peaches every morning for a couple of weeks so the melon was a nice change. It was the very first melon we've ever grown and we all just looked at it as if it were a special part of our family...and then we ate it...YUM! Sweet and deeeeeelish! We have about 15 more awaiting our table. I used to want you to adopt me as a special part of your family...but...now...I'm not so sure, especially because I am so succulent. :crazy:

Keb

08-14-2005, 05:18 PM

I used to want you to adopt me as a special part of your family...but...now...I'm not so sure, especially because I am so succulent. :crazy:Too late - you're already adopted!:biggrin:

UhUhNoWay

08-14-2005, 05:30 PM

Too late - you're already adopted!:biggrin: I guess I'll be ok as long as you don't invite me for dinner :grin:

sunsettommy

08-16-2005, 09:42 PM

What about MUSKmelon?

:grin:

Keb

08-19-2005, 09:47 PM

I've never understood the difference between the two. Are they basically the same melon?

sunsettommy

08-20-2005, 07:33 PM

I've never understood the difference between the two. Are they basically the same melon?

I was just teasing.:grin:

However I can answer your question with a link:

MUSKMELON
</FONT>Cucumis melo L., family Cucurbitaceae

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<CENTER></CENTER>The muskmelons grown commercially in this country were classified by Whitaker (1970) into "varieties." Variety reticulatus Naud. includes the cantaloupes and 'Persian' melons, and variety inodorus Naud. includes the Casabas and the Honey Dews. There are numerous cultivars of each.

Muskmelons are grown in most States, but more than one half the acreage is in California. The bulk of the muskmelon crop is cantaloupes, combined with a small acreage of Casabas and 'Persians', which amounted 111,800 acres in 1970. Honey Dews were produced on 13,200 acres. The combined farm value of all muskmelons was $93.3 million.

http://gears.tucson.ars.ag.gov/book/chap6/muskmelon.html

Cantaloupes,Honeydew,Casabas,Persians are ALL Muskmelons.