Paper · 1669 · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

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

Dela Quintiny

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Abstract

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

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Observationobservedoriginal resultmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

The seeds produced melons with thin, embroidered skin without ribs.

Taxon
melonsCucumis meloe0
Organ / stage
skine0
Outcome
thin and somewhat embroider’d skin, not divided by ribbse0

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Cucumis melo
Cucumis melo · TaxonUSDA photo by Scott Bauer. Image Number K7355-11. · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Verbatim

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“All the seeds, I sent you, produce melons with a thin and somewhat embroider’d skin, not divided by ribbs”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 107–212 · show in text ↑
Observationobservedoriginal resultmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Some melons had whitish skin and others slate-colored skin.

Taxon
melonsCucumis meloe1
Organ / stage
skine0
Outcome
skin whitish, others of the colour of slatee0

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Cucumis melo
Cucumis melo · TaxonUSDA photo by Scott Bauer. Image Number K7355-11. · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Verbatim

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“Some of them have their skin whitish, others of the colour of slate”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 214–281 · show in text ↑
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“produce melons with a thin”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 134–160 · show in text ↑