 | William Harrison Ainsworth - English literature - 1844 - 604 pages
...large green water-melon, rose-coloured 'within, is a very favourite fruit, grows to an enormous size, and may be seen, piled up like huge cannon-balls, at all the fruit-shopdoors, " being universally admired in this hot, thirsty climate." Mrs. Meredith, however,... | |
 | Barbara Santich - Cooking - 2000 - 262 pages
...length of a sleeve than in literature, art or politics. Notes and Sketches in Sevi South Wales, 1844 The market in Sydney is well supplied, and is held...very nice, though not esteemed a proper dish for a dinner party why, I am at a loss to guess; but I never saw any native fish at a Sydney dinner-table... | |
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English fruits, such as strawberries, &c., only succeed in a few situations in the colony, and are far from plentiful. Cucumbers and all descriptions of melon abound. The large green watermelon, rose-coloured within, is a very favourite fruit, but I thought... 