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The "Strickler-Golden Bush" Squash Cross. 



Among the fifty and more crosses grown upon the home 

 Grounds this season, no row excelled the above combination in 

 the vigor and health fulness of the vines and the number and large 

 size as well as uniformity of the fruits. In 1905 the record shows 

 that of this cross twenty-two plants were grown, all of them 

 dark green • and producing solid yellow (or orange) colored 

 fruits with a broad neck, straight or nearly so, and showing but 

 little wartiness. A study of the parents as to shape of fruit might 

 lead one to project in advance the p'tobable outcome of the union. 

 The color of the two is so nearly the same that no change in this 

 might be expected and the extreme flatness of the "Scallop" and 

 the elongation of the "Strickler," wdiich is not as "goose-necked" 

 as the true "Crookneck," would suggest a form midway between 

 them ; and this is fully realized in the result. In length, the cross 

 is not equal to the "Strickler," and along with the abbreviation 

 there is the retention of the scallop features of the mother, but 

 instead of this being a rim to the body of the otherwise oval fruit 

 it assumes the nature of a series of long folds or corrugations 

 that extend for some inches over the central portion of the fruit. 

 It may well bear the name of "Fluted Orange." 



Last year the report stated that the forty-two large, early, 

 w'arty fruits of this cross w^ere chiefly orange-colored and in type 

 close to the parent, namely, an elongated "jug." The fruits this 

 season have exceeded in length those of last year, and it remains 

 to be seen whether they will hold to the type that is quite uniform 

 in the row of eight hills now maturing. 



The "Jersey Green" Summer Squash. 



A strain from the cross of "Scallop" upon "Crookneck," after 

 four years of selection, has become well fixed in shape and color, 

 and seeds of it will be offered for distribution. The size and shape 

 of the fruits are acceptable, being a long-neck "jug" of medium 

 size, entirely without warts, and when ready for use are of a hand- 

 some, solid, dark green color. 



