204 CUCURBITACEOUS PLANTS. 



" Horticultural Register " of Fessenden, and also to the " New 

 England Farmer." 



In cultivating this vegetable, I found the fruit to average from 

 eight to nine pounds, particularly if grown on newly broken-up 

 sod or grass land. From its facility in hybridizing with the tribe 

 of pumpkins, I consider it to be, properly speaking, a fine-grained 

 pumpkin. The first indication of deterioration or mixture will be 

 manifested in the thickening of the skin, or by a green circle or 

 coloring of green at the blossom-end. 



More recently, I have been informed, by the gentleman to whom 

 I was indebted for the first specimen, that the seeds came originally 

 from Buffalo, N. Y., where they were supposed to have been intro- 

 duced by a tribe of Indians, who were accustomed to visit that 

 city in the spring of the year. I have not been able to trace it 

 beyond this. It is, unquestionably, an accidental hybrid. 

 Yours truly, 



JOHN M. IVES. 



Mr. F. BURR, Jun. 



Bush, or A sub-variety of the Vegetable Marrow, with 



DwarfVege- 

 table Marrow, a dwarf, reclining stem, two and a halt or 



three feet in height or length. The fruit has the form and 

 color of the running variety, but is of smaller size, gener- 

 ally measuring six or seven inches in length, and about 

 three inches in diameter. . 



The variety is hardy, productive, comes early into use, 

 and will keep through the winter, though much inferior to 

 the Boston Marrow, Hubbard, and like sorts, as a table veg- 

 etable ; it is excellent as a pie-squash, and is well suited for 

 cultivation in humid climates, or cold latitudes, as the fruit 

 forms early in the season, and is soon ripened. 



Canada The plants of this variety are similar in 



habit to those of the Common Winter Crook- 

 neck ; but the foliage is smaller, and the growth less luxu- 

 riant. In point of size the Canada Crookneck is the smallest 



