268 NEW JERSEY STATE AGRICULTURAL 



COMMERCIAL VARIETIES ADDED IN I908. 



No. 55. "Mexican Pumpkin." This is a large pear-shaped 

 fruit with a mottled surface on a light background. 

 The flesh is 4 cms. thick. The fruit matured late, 

 there being but one or two fruits to a plant. The 

 fruit is over a foot long. 



No. 56. "Chinese." The fruits are long and medium large. 

 The color is dark green or striped, giving the exact 

 appearance of No. 41 grown last year. The dif- 

 ference, however, is in the appearance of the seeds, 

 which are curiously marked like the appearance of 

 Chinese letters. 



No. 57. "Farr's Benning White Bush." A white scalloped 

 fruit, in all respects similar to "Early Bush" (8). 



No. 58. "Porto Rican Black." A medium-sized flat fruit. The 

 surface is dark green and finely-grained and the 

 flesh is orange, 3 cms. thick, and the vines exceed- 

 ingly long. 



No. 59. "Porto Rican White." The fruit is similar to No. 58 

 except that its surface is comparatively smooth. 

 Both No. 58 and No. 59 are entirely too late, hav- 

 ing barely time enough to mature the first fruit 

 before frost. 



No. 60. "Prolific Marrozv." The plants failed to develop 

 fruits. 



No. 61. "Japanese Pie Pumpkin." A bottle-shaped fruit of 

 medium size. It has peculiar ridges radiating from 

 the stalk and half way down the fruit. The flesh 

 is yellow, about 3 cms. thick. The fruit is about 

 ten inches long. 



No. 62. "Sandzvich Island Pumpkin." This is a large, oval- 

 shaped fruit with a deeply corrugated surface of a 

 dark green color. It is about 15 inches long with 

 a long fruit stalk; the flesh is about 3.5 cms. thick. 



No. 63. "Tennessee Sweet Potato Pumpkin." This is an early 

 fruit, of an attractive pear shape. The surface is 

 white with a fine network of green. The fruit is 

 over a foot long and its flesh about 3 cms. thick. 



No. 64. "Zuccottc." The bushy plants were thrifty with huge 

 leaves and produced fruits nearly three feet long 

 and curved near the stalk end. The surface is dark 

 green with light yellow stripes. Its flesh is only 

 2 cms. thick belonging to the class of vegetable 

 marrows. 



