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several contrasting qualities : Squash and pumpkin, small and 

 very large fruit, very early and very late, bush and running, a 

 flat scallop and an oval form; finally, white surface and yellow 

 surface. Its fruits began to form only three days later than 

 the "Early Bush" and developed into large, cream-colored, pear- 

 shaped fruits. Some of these v^ere even larger than the pump- 

 kin and their flesh thicker. When tested as a squash, it proved 

 inferior but, as a pumpkin, it was fine. Their further value is 

 earliness, being at least two weeks earlier than other pumpkins, 

 The bush plant produced about two fruits. (Plate XXIV). 



"Maminoth White Scallop-Field Pumpkin" (10/46). It is a 

 similar cross to that described above, (8/46), with the size of 

 fruit smaller. Its color varied from cream to yellow. The plant 

 was bushy, producing two to three fruits and of good quality. 

 (Plate XXIV). 



"Field Pumpkin-Yellozv Crookneck-Long I sland-S trickier' s 

 Summer" (46///5/6//1 1 ). This cross differs from the preceding 

 two in that the male parent was the pumpkin instead of the 

 squash. The summer squash was a cross in itself, a small warted 

 "jug." When a pumpkin was bred upon it, a surprisingly large 

 offspring resulted, retaining a suggestion of the "jug" and yet 

 appearing as a pumpkin more strongly than the two preceding 

 crosses. This, however, has warts transmitted from the mother. 

 The color is yellow like the pumpkin parent, and the fruit longer 

 than that parent. The quality is considered fine. There were 

 about two fruits to the bushy plant, and reached table maturity 

 much earlier than the ordinary pumpkins. (Plate XXIV). 



A GENERAL OBSERVATION ON BLENDS IN SQUASHES. 



Outside of the summary given on page 262, it can be stated 

 from all our blends that in the majority of cases there is no 

 uniformity in shape, color and wartiness, and the variability is 

 often very great, ranging from one parent to the other. A 

 careful study was given in the arrangement of intergrading types 

 in order to determine whether any given type takes the lead in 

 number, and it showed without any exception that no particular 

 type has a majority, it proved the variability to-be so gradual 

 that it was difficult to arrange them into distinct types. The 

 gradation from one parent to the other may be of different de- 

 grees, that is to say, it may start from one parent and not quite 

 approach the other, or it may reach directly to the other. But 

 in every case the variability is gradual. 



