Possible Clues:

• Sugar secretion from aphids
• Sweet substance produced by aphids
• Darling expected, it's said, saccharine stuff
• Large fruit
• Green melon
• Sounds like should expect wife with the melon
• Muskmelon cultivar
• Melon — Owen Hyde (anag)
• Sweet stuff having colour, certainly not rejected, penned by hack
• Muskmelon variety