During the fifteenth century, cantaloupes were growing in popularity in the southern part of Spain. Melon seeds were brought in by the Arabs who settled in Andalusia. From there they were introduced to the New World on Columbus's second voyage in 1493 when he took melon seeds to Haiti. One of his journal entries dated 1494, records that he found cantaloupes growing in the Galapagos from a planting only two months prior. The Indians of Central and South America were delighted to discover a new fruit and eagerly adopted cantaloupes into their cultivated gardens. By the1600's cataloupes were grown in North America from Florida to New England, but the melons did not attain popular acceptance until the 19th century. It was not until after the Civil War, which ended in 1865, that cantaloupes became a major crop in United States . Sometime during the sixteenth century, melon seeds from Armenia were planted in the Papal gardens of Cantaloupo, a city near Tivoli close to Rome. According to historians, cantaloupes acquired their name here where this species was first grown in Europe. In the seventeenth century, melons were becoming a popular fruit in France and Italy, but could only be grown in the southern regions, and then only under glass to capture enough warmth for them to mature. At that time the French were referring to melons as "sucrins," meaning sugar. Charles Estienne, printer and publisher, reveals the secret of success to growing sweet melons. He says, "gardeners watered them with honeyed or sweetened water." Even Jean de la Quintinie, gardener to Louis XIV, planted seven varieties of melons under glass. In the mid1800's Navahos in the United States Southwest were growing cantaloupes whose seeds probably arrived via Latin America. On a trip to Armenia some time during the1900's, British novelist Michael Arlen learned it was the Armenians who introduced the casaba melon into California.