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GrojveT»^ Notes upon Station "W inter Squash No. 1. 



A hundred and thirty-four packets of the cross of ''Hubbard" 

 upon "Boston Alarrow" were distributed to testers Last spring, 

 but at the time of ^^Titing only a few have reported upon their 

 results. The following notes show that some were pleased with 

 the cross : " 'Winter Squash' was of excellent quality, medium in 

 i=iize, yellow in color." "Large, strong vines." "Quality is very 

 ;good and the shape is fine." "Size medium, fair in vigor and pro- 

 ductiveness." "^Medium size, strong grower, very productive; 

 fifteen nice squashes ; quality excellent ; cook fine and dry ; in 

 my opinion, they are superior to the 'Warted Hubbard' that I 

 raised in the same ground." "Plants have done well; vines 

 strong, vigorous gi'owers." "Healthy and vigorous vines; one 

 vine has eighteen squashes on it, varying in size from tiny ones 

 to about twelve inches around." "Vines are vigorous and healthy." 

 ■"Squash very productive, vigorous growers and fruit very uni- 

 forn'i ; from all indications it will l)ecome a leading squash for 

 market growers." "The 'Station Winter Squash' has fully equaled 

 our expectations ; vine a strong, vigorous grower ; I have about 

 twenty squashes, varying in size from twenty inches to twenty- 

 iiiuc inches in circumference; the shape is very uniform, prac- 

 tically the same as the 'Hubl)ard ;' there is quite a variation in 

 color of some." 



Notes upon Squash Seeds. 



The following are some of the observations made upon the seeds 

 of the vine squashes in connection with those of the crosses that 

 have been secured the present year in their first generation from 

 the blend. Following the order of the numerators (beginning 

 with the lowest) of the fractions expressing the crosses that are 

 represented in Plate XXIL, the first cross is "Golden Hubbard" 

 (■i) upon "Hubbard" (1). In this cross (4/1), in the first gen- 

 eration after the blend, the seeds in each fruit are of two sizes — 

 a large and small — as shown at 2 and 3, the seeds of the parents 

 being at 1 ("Golden Hubbard") and 2 ("HLubbard"), respec- 

 tively. It is noted that the seeds of the cross are not of sizc^s and 

 forms that agree with either parent. At 5 and G are shown the 

 seeds from the same fruit — a cross of 4, above named, upon "War- 

 ren" (7), and here (4/7), again, there are two sizes, which are 

 not closely adliering to parental types. 



