Melons Sentence Examples

The size of the melons is specially famous.

The district is famous for its melons, and also produces wine, olives, wheat and esparto grass.

Besides manufactures of brandy, flour, oil, soap, linen and cloth, it has an active trade in wheat, wine and fruit, especially melons.

Apart from the arid wastes of the Karst, the soil is well adapted for the growing of cereals, especially Indian corn; olives, vines, mulberries, figs, pomegranates, melons, oranges, lemons, rice and tobacco flourish in Herzegovina and the more sheltered portions of Bosnia.

There is a large vineyard in the vicinity; truckgardening is an important industry in the surrounding country; and Fayetteville is a shipping centre for small fruits and vegetables, especially lettuce, melons and berries.

Fruits of various descriptions, and more particularly melons and stone fruits, are abundant.

Among vegetables the common kinds grown include radishes, pumpkins, cucumbers, melons, potatoes, onions and leeks.

Alfalfa and grapes are the principal products, and considerable attention is given to the cultivation of other fruits, such as figs, peaches and melons.

Of the former the chief kinds are pears, apples, plums, apricots, peaches, persimmons and melons.

There is a governing body chosen from among the islanders, the constitution of which has been altered more than once owing to internal jealousies, &c. The island produces sweet potatoes, yams, melons, bananas and other fruits, arrowroot and coffee.

The principal agricultural products are wheat, maize, rye, oats and fruit, namely olives, figs and melons.

The reciprocal adaptations of insects and flowers demand attentive observation on the part of the gardener concerned with the growing of grapes, cucumbers, melons and strawberries, or with the raising of new and improved varieties of plants.

Whenever continuous supplies of cucumbers, melons and tomatoes are required, it is most convenient to grow them in properly constructed forcing houses.

Pits and frames of various kinds are frequently used for the cultivation of cucumbers and melons, as well as hot beds covered by ordinary garden frames.

It is adapted for storing plants in winter, for nursing small plants in summer and for the culture of melons and other crops requiring glass shelter.

Somewhat heavy loam y are best for potting pine apples, for melons and strawberries, fruit trees in pots, &c., and may be used with the addition of manures only; but for ornamental plants a loam of a somewhat freer texture is preferable and more pleasant to work.

The work is carried on from October till the end of March and April, after which, with the exception of melons, the cultures are carried on in the open air.

To these is added a very important crop of melons, a special large-fruited variety known as the Prescott Canteloup being the most favoured.

Prepare manure for making up hotbeds for early cucumbers and melons, where pits heated with hot water are not in use; also for Ashleaf potatoes.

The pomegranate fields form a striking feature in the valley - the pomegranates of Kandahar, with its "sirdar" melons and grapes, being unequalled in quality by any in the East.

The best-known fruits, besides dates and grapes, are figs, sycamore-figs and pomegranates, apricots and peaches, oranges and citrons, lemons and limes, bananas, which are believed to be of the fruits of Paradise (being always in season), different kinds of melons (including some of aromatic flavour, and the refreshing water-melon), mulberries, Indian figs or prickly pears, the fruit of the lotus and olives.

Olives, melons, mulberries and strawberries are also grown, though not in very large numbers.

The summer crops (millet, sesame, figs, melons, grapes, olives, &c.) are fertilized by the heavy " dews " which are one of the most remarkable climatic features of the country and to a large extent atone for the total lack of rain for one half the year.

Besides these are grown melons, mulberries, bananas, apricots, quinces, walnuts, lemons and citron.

The growth of melons, water-melons and other cucurbitaceous plants is reckoned very important, especially near towns; and this crop counts for a distinct harvest.

There are large railway car construction and repair shops here, and Way - cross is a commercial centre for the forest products (naval stores and lumber) and the cotton, sugar cane, sweet potatoes, melons and pears of the surrounding country.

Apples, peaches, plums, apricots, pears, cherries and melons have been introduced.

Melons are to some extent exported, and peaches also; the musk-melons of the Arkansas valley (Rocky Ford Canteloups) being in demand all over the United States.

The common, yet excellent melons, watermelons, grapes, apricots, cherries, plums, apples, are within the reach of the poorest.

Some fruits are famous and vie in excellence with any that European orchards produce; such are the peaches of Tabri2 and Meshed, the sugar melons of Kashan and Isfahan, the apRIes of Demavend, pears of Natanz, figs of KermgnshAh, &c. Ihe strawberry was brought to Persia about 1859, and is much cultivated in the gardens of Teherfln and neighborhood; the raspberry was introduced at about the same time, but is not much apprecIated.

Wheat, barley, rice, beans and various oil-yielding plants are grown, and melons, grapes, apples and other fruits.

In 1899 the state also produced 5,304,503 bushels of tomatoes; 2,418,641 bushels of sweet potatoes; 2,052,200 bunches of asparagus; 17,890,980 heads of cabbage; 21,495,940 musk melons; 3,300,330 water melons; and 1,015,111 bushels of sweet corn.

Its importance is largely due to these transportation facilities and to the resources of the surrounding country, which produces timber, lime, cotton, Indian corn, sugar-cane, wheat, oats, fruit, melons, hay and vegetables.

On the upland fruit farms, although apples, pears, medlars, cherries, plums, peaches, apricots and melons thrive, the chief attention is given to damsons, from which is extracted a mild spirit (tsuica), highly esteemed throughout Rumania.

Apples are grown to best advantage in the north-west quarter; peaches on the Arkansas border; pears along the Mississippi; melons in the sandy regions of the embayment; small fruits in the south-west.

There are few indigenous fruits; the kei apple is the fruit of a small tree or shrub found in Kaffraria and the eastern districts, where also the wild and Kaffir plums are common; hard pears, gourds, water melons and species of almond, chestnut and lemon are also native.

The surrounding country produces Sea Island cotton, melons, citrus and other fruits, vegetables and naval stores.

Among fruits, grapes and mulberries are rare, but melons and watermelons, especially the latter, are abundant.

It produces wheat and barley, melons, and perhaps a few vegetables and oil seeds.

Other foodstuffs raised are lentils, beans, onions and melons.

Of plants that furnish food for man the most important are rice, maize and millet, coffee, the coco-nut tree, sago-palm, the obi or native potato, the bread-fruit and the tamarind; with lemons, oranges, mangosteens, wild-plums, Spanish pepper, beans, melons and sugar-cane.

Accompanied by fruity notes of fresh citrus, melons, peaches, and plums.

Yet he goes and eats more melons than the rest of us put together!

The third mission station will grow high-value melons to meet market demand.

Nigel Slater's delicious summer salads Britain's best food writer mixes up fresh beans and peas, juicy melons and silky salami.

He sent his servants to buy a great many large, sweet melons.

I can remember the taste of sugar cane and apple slice melons, also the smell of guavas.

For pure, unadulterated raunch try Squeeze My Melons, a cheeky hot pink that tastes of plump watermelons.

Sage holds the place of honour; then comes rue, the antidote of poisons; and so on through melons, fennel, lilies, poppies, and many other plants, to wind up with the rose, "which in virtue and scent surpasses all other herbs, and may rightly be called the flower of flowers."

Dates, almonds, grapes, figs, peaches, apricots, olives, and in rainy years melons and cucumbers grow there without irrigation.

After the date, vines, peaches, apricots, oranges, mangoes, melons and mulberries find special favour with the Rehbayin, who exhibit all the skill and perseverance of the Arab agriculturist of Yemen, and cultivate everything that the soil is capable of producing.

These are used both for the summer growth and winter protection of various kinds of ornamental plants, for the growth of such fruits as cucumbers, melons and strawberries, and for the forcing of vegetables.

Continue the forcing of melons, cucumbers, tomatoes and the various fruits.

Continue the preparation of succession beds and pits for cucumbers and melons.

Plant melons and cucumbers on the hotbeds prepared for vegetables in February, and now free.

Proceed with planting melons, cucumbers and tomatoes.

Prune melons and cucumbers, giving air and water and maintaining heat, &c. Continue the routine treatment in the tomatohouses.

Take care that late melons, cucumbers and tomatoes be not injured by getting too much water and too little air.

Yams, several kinds of sweet potatoes, melons, pumpkins, cucumbers, pineapples, bananas and mangosteens are cultivated, as also are a large number of other fruits.

Carrots, melons, vegetable marrows, cucumbers and onions are extensively grown.

But I noticed some strawberries growing in one of the gardens, and some melons in another place.

In the vegetable gardens they found the strawberries and melons, and several other unknown but delicious fruits, of which they ate heartily.

When you come to Tuscumbia to see me I hope my father will have many sweet apples and juicy peaches and fine pears and delicious grapes and large water melons.

Sitting beside her in the car, I describe what I see from the window--hills and valleys and the rivers; cotton-fields and gardens in which strawberries, peaches, pears, melons, and vegetables are growing; herds of cows and horses feeding in broad meadows, and flocks of sheep on the hillside; the cities with their churches and schools, hotels and warehouses, and the occupations of the busy people.

Fruits like melons, strawberries, and mangos are good choices.

These are popular fruit versions of daiquiris, but you can add other fruits like mangos, raspberries, melons – whichever you desire.

They also planted and harvested yams, peanuts, black-eyed peas, tomatoes, melons, tea, potatoes, and cabbage.

The melon daiquiri has sake instead of rum and actual melons blended in.

Most home gardeners in zones 4 through 8 can grow several varieties of melons.

If you plant seedless varieties, you must plant a variety with seeds along with the seedless plants in order for the seedless melons to pollinate and set fruit.

Choose Crimson Sweet, a red-flesh variety that produces watermelons around 20 pounds each, or Madera, which produces smaller melons around 14 pounds.

Many other varieties of melons grow on vines.

These include honey dew melons, cantaloupes, musk melons, and other sweet melons.

There are many types of melons available to the home gardener, each promising sweet, delectable fruit.

All grow on vines varying from 20 feet long to smaller types that can be grown in containers.When choosing other types of melons, experiment.

Unlike melons, grape vines need to grow up and over a support, such as a wire or trellis, to allow the fruit to hang free to ripen and pick.Grapes also need very well drained, deep soil.

Striped and spotted beetles attack watermelons and other types of melons.

Tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, cucumbers, herbs and even miniature varieties of melons can thrive in pots.

Melons also prefer to be started right in the soil.

These include tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, squash of all kinds, melons of all types, and green beans.

Since squash bugs show a preference for Hubbard squash and many types of pumpkin, as opposed to melons and cucumbers, stay away from plantings that will present an attractive buffet for squash bugs.

These are low alcohol wines with intense flavors of stone fruit, melons, minerals and good acidity.

This wine has an interesting aroma that has been described as a combination of honey, peach blossoms and ripe melons.

The delicate smokey aftertaste is reminiscent of fresh melons and peaches.

Riper melons have more sugar, and tend to have a few more calories, but the difference is negligible.

Protein can include meats, dairy products, melons and citrus fruits, lentils, wine and cider.

Some fruits - like berries and melons - are lower in carbohydrates than others.

Large quantities of fruits - apples, pears, quinces, peaches, nectarines, apricots, grapes and melons - were exported by special trains to central Europe, where the Turkestan crop was received a short time before the south European supplies ripened.

Melons and water-melons are also important objects of cultivation.

It is the chief town of an undulating plain, La Serena, locally celebrated for red wine and melons.