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Marrow Nos. 43C5 and 4300 were small, pumpkin-shaped and had no special merit. 

 The shells were very hard, dark yellow and the meat was thick, but stringy and 

 watery. No. 43GG was somewhat elongated, which was the only diflerence. 



The Crookneck varieties are standards for early use and too well known to need 

 description. 



Brazil Sugar is a small, warty, light yellow, thin-shelled sort. The meat is thin, 

 greenish yellow, .tough, stringy and lacks sweetness. 



The Gold and Silver Custards take the lead among the Marrows, but the Turbans 

 are also desirable for medium sorts. 



Golden Bronze and Green Mountain are of the Hubbard type and are very desirable 

 general purpose sorts. Golden Hubbard is a choice variety. The meat is thick, dry 

 and sweet. 



PL^IPKINS. 



Four varieties of pumpkins were grown. 



Golden jNIarrow, received from Maule, is a long oval, oblong sort, and is better as 

 a field pumpkin than for garden purposes. It is a great yielder, but the meat is 

 coarse and not as sweet for pie purposes as some of the smaller sorts. 



Sugar, from Henderson, is of dark golden color, medium size, smooth, thick meated, 

 and has a rich, sweet flavor. It is one of the best pie pumpkins. The vines are vigorous 

 and productive. 



Sweet Potato, ^laule, is similar to Sugar, and has a very large, stout stem that is not 

 easily broken off. The shell is hard and thick, but the meat is very firm, solid, fine 

 grained and has a desirable flavor. 



Winter Luxury, received from Peter Henderson & Co., is a choice variety. It is 

 one of the larger pie sorts, bright yellow, with a netted russet covering. The shell is of 

 medium thickness, flesh fine-grained, thick and of the highest quality. With careful 

 handling they are long keepers, and for winter use they cannot be excelled as a pie 

 pumpkin. 



These include some of the better sorts of pie pumpkins and some of them should 

 be grown in the garden for cooking purposes, because they are productive and much 

 superior to the common field pumpkins. 



TOMATOES, 1900. 

 NOTES BY R. S. XORTHROP. 



The seeds for this variety test were so^^^l in the College forcing house March 26. 

 They were given the ordinary treatment for tomato seedlings, being twice transplanted, 

 first into flats one inch apart each way on April 5, and next were set about 2 by 3 inches 

 apart on April 21. On June 4, 5, 6 they were put in the field, the rows being 6 feet 

 apart and plants 4 feet apart in the rows. The soil was a sandy loam, rich in vege- 

 table matter. 



The accompanying table shows the seedsmen from whom the seed was received, 

 those varieties marked Dept. having been grown from seed saved at the College. 



The dates of the first ripe fruits, the characters of the vines and foliage, with the 

 average weight of an individual fruit, makes plain the relative merit of most varieties. 

 Some of the newer varieties which have not been grown before at the College have a 

 special description added. 



The varieties Trophy, Lorillard, Best of All, Advance, Dominion Day, Ignotum and 

 Potato leaf Ignotum were also grown in the forcing house, being trained to single 

 stems and kept near the glass. Of these Dominion Day and Lorillard gave the best 

 results as forcing sorts. 



NOTES ON NEW VARIETIES. 



Beefsteak, received from Buckbee. This was found to be a very desirable variety. 

 The vines are of vigorous spreading habit, giving the fruit a very good chance to develop 

 evenly and to good size. They are hardy growers and enormously productive. The fruit 

 is of a handsome red color and even form, averaging very nearly one-half pound each. 



