Charentais Melon 'Prescott Fond Blanc'

This is a pretty melon. It didn't taste any different than cantaloupe, however. I don't know if it was the soil or if I don't have a fi...Read Morene enough palate for melon taste, of if we didn't pick it "at perfection" I'd like to try growing this again sometime, in richer soil.

70 days. The fruit is 4-9 lbs., very flattened and ribbed, with warts and bumps. Melons have grey/green skin turning straw color; flesh is salmon-orange. Once one of the best known melons, it was mentioned in the 1860's, but it likely is much older.