478 NEW JERSEY AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 



EXPERIMENTS \7ITH SQUASHES. 



During 1905 tbirtv-three crosses of summer squashes, secured 

 in 1903 and 1904, were gi'own, a full account of which, with a 

 plate, -were given in the report for last year (pages 492-497). The 

 seeds from forty of the selected fruits of that crop were used for 

 planting the present season. Each lot of seeds was given a sepa- 

 rate row across a plot and containing eight hills, four feet apart. 

 The stand of plants was satisfactory excepting in one row, which 

 Avas replanted from another lot of seeds. 



Some of the rows M'ere planted with seeds that resulted from 

 fruits grown after pollination within the plant, and these are 

 designated by'the letters C. F. (close fertilized) in the following 

 record, while the others, heing fertilized within the row, are dis- 

 tingiii'ihed by the letters W. E. Stakes were lettered from A. to 

 ^N'.N. to avoid confusion in the reference to the row in the previ- 

 ous year, ihus: A, 5/6, type 8, C. F. I., means that in the first 

 rovr seeds were planted from a rectangular, warty squash (type 8), 

 fertilized within the plant bearing the fruit (C. F.), and of the 

 cross of ^'Yellow Crookneck" upon "Long Island Scallop" (5/6). 

 The Roman numeral indicates the row (I) from which the "hand- 

 worked" fruit was selected in 1905. The following types of 

 squashes have been determined and correspond with the engi'av- 

 ing in the report for last year above cited : 



1. Flat, smooth, not scalloped. 13. ".Tug." smooth, not fluted. 



2. Flat, warty, not scalloped. 14. "Jug," warty, not fluted. 



3. Flat, smooth, scalloped. 15. "Jug." smooth, fluted. 



4. Flat, warty, scalloped. 16. "Jug." warty, fluted. 



■5. Rectangular, smooth, not scalloped. 17. Longneck, smooth, not fluted. 



<!. Rectangular, warty, not scalloped. 18. Longneck. warty, not fluted. 



7. Rectangular, smooth, scalloped. 19. Longneck, smooth, fluted. 



8. Rectangular, warty, scalloped. 20. Longneck, warty, fluted. 



9. Oval, smooth, not fluted. 21. "Cheese," smooth, not fluted. 



10. Oval, warty, not fluted. 22. "Cheese," warty, fluted. 



11. Oval, smooth, fluted. 23. Spherical, smooth. 

 !•_'. Oval, warty, fluted. 



The classification assumes that the flat, smooth unscalloped fruit is the 

 simplest general type of squash, and the long, warty and fluted one the most 

 complex. Three forms are given after the classified groups. 



