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5. The white-fruited types appear stronger in the power to transmit form 

 and productiveness. 



6. Fewer seeds are produced^by flowers artificially pollinated than by those 

 left to mature, even though an excess of pollen is used. . 



7. It is possible that the egg-plant may be included among those plants 

 which are capable of producing ^ruit without the aid of pollen. — Bulletin 10, 

 Cornell Expt. Station. 



SQUASHES. 



QUASHES may be grown on any soil suitable for a garden, 

 if it receives proper cultivation. The ground needs a 

 good dressing of decomposed stable manure spread on 

 every spring, about an inch thick, and turned under with 

 a spade or plow to a depth of five or six inches. This is 

 sufficient depth after the garden has been tilled ten or 

 t.velve inches deep, and the stones gathered out. If the 

 ground is spaded more than five or six inches, more 

 manure must be applied. The Warted Crookneck and the Scalloped squash 

 are best summer varieties, and the former is the better of the two. They are not 

 great runners, and may be planted in any plot of the garden, in hills at a distance 

 of six feet from each other. Twelve to fifteen seeds to the hill are sufificient, 

 and when six inches high thin them down to four plants to the hill. 



Winter squashes are tremendous runners and must be planted on one side or 

 another of the garden, arranged with design to make the garden beautiful. 

 Winter squashes should be planted ten feet from the edge or border of the 

 garden, and in hills ten feet from each other, with ten seeds to the hill, and 

 then thin down to four plants when ix inches high. 



There are seven varieties of winter squash that are grown for market or home 

 use : Hubbard, Butman, Marrow, Boston Marrow, Turban, Crookneck, and 

 Canada Crookneck. The Hubbard is the richest and best keeper of all the 

 squashes. The Butman is the next best, and is a hybrid of the Hubbard and 

 the Boston Marrow. The Boston Marrow is the pure Marrow squash, and in 

 richness of flavor may be rated next to the Hubbard and Butman. The Mar- 

 row is a hybrid of the Boston Marrow and the pumpkin, and will produce the 

 greatest yield of the squashes ; the flavor is not so rich as those previously 

 named and the grain is not so fine. The Turban is not a favorite squash. The 

 grain is fine, flavor is fair, but it does not cook dry ; the yield is smaller than 

 any of the above named. The Crooknecks have but little to recommend them 

 but their antique character. 



Tiverton. A. H. Cameron. 



