University of Maine Highmoor Farm Mark Hutton, E-mail: mark.hutton@maine.edu David Handley, E-mail: david.handley@maine.edu During the last few years a number of new muskmelon cultivars have been released that had not been tested in New England Universities variety trials. In this experiment, we evaluated the performance of 18 muskmelon cultivars (Table 1.) and their response to PlantShield®.