44 SQUASHES, HOW TO GROW THEM. ETC. 



grower must strike the balance for himself the facts be- 

 ing, that the yield is from one-fourth to one-third as great 

 as carrots, and from one-fourth to- one-fifth as great as 

 mangolds, while they require but a fraction of the care in 

 cultivation and gathering, that either of these crops do. 



VARIETIES OF SQUASHES. 



Owing to the great tendency in the varieties of the 

 Cucurbitaceous Family to cross with each other, hybids are 

 very common. Seed planted the first season after the cross- 

 ing has been made, will usually produce a greater crop than 

 either of the parent kinds, and individual squashes will be 

 superior in quality to either of the parents ; yet, as a rule, 

 hybridization is not desirable, for, after the first season, 

 there is a deterioratiori in the quality, below the average 

 of the parent kinds, while the mixed varieties are not so 

 marketable as the pure kinds. 



lliibbanl Squash. I have traced the history of this 

 squash back about sixty years r when the first specimen 



HUBBARD SQUASH. 



was brought into Marblchead by a market-man named 

 Green, who lived in the vicinity of Boston. The person 

 who, when a girl, ate of the first specimen, is now living, an 



