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quires a long season, and it should be started early and placed 

 upon a warm quick soil. Like the cucumber and melon, the lufFas 

 are tender and should not be placed in the field until frosty 

 weather has passed. 



Sing-kzva. {^Luffa acutangula.~) 



This plant differs from the preceding in bearing a ten-ribbed 

 fruit, as shown in the illustration (below), and leaves which are 

 rounded in outline and only slightly lobed. It is in common cul- 

 tivation by the Chinese about New York, to whom it is known as 

 Sing-kiva, or "hairy squash," although I do not know why the 

 name is applied to it unless in reference to the somewhat pubes- 



Sing-kwa. — Liiffa acutangula. 



cent stems, although it does not differ perceptibly in this respect 

 from the Sua-kwa just described. This plant, like the other, 

 is widely distributed in the tropics and is known under a variety 

 of names. To botanists it is commonly known as Luffa fivtida. 

 We have grown it as Rag Gourd. The name Dish Cloth Gourd 

 can be as well applied to it as to the other. The uses of the 

 fruit are the same as tho.se of Sua-kzva. 



III. Miscellaneous Vegetables. 

 Ga-lon-ow , or Chinese Pea. {Pisiun sativum..') 



The pea of the Chinese gardens behaves like a little improved 

 or perhaps ancient tj'pe of the common pea. It is the same 

 species as ours. It differs chiefly in having somewhat knotty or 



