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of its class. When the variety is unmixed the weight sel- 

 dom exceeds five or six pounds. It is sometimes bottle- 

 formed ; but the neck is generally small, solid, and curved in 

 the form of the Large Winter Crooknecks. The seeds are 

 contained at the blossom-end, which expands somewhat ab- 

 ruptly, and is often slightly ribbed. Skin of moderate thick- 

 ness, and easily pierced by the nail ; color, when fully ripened, 

 cream-yellow, but, if long kept, becoming duller and darker ; 

 flesh salmon-red, very close-grained, dry, sweet, and fine- 

 flavored ; seeds comparatively small, of a grayish or dull 

 white color, with a rough and uneven yellowish-brown bor- 

 der ; three hundred are contained in an ounce. 



Canada Crookneck Squash. 



The Canada is unquestionably the best of the Crooknecked 

 sorts. The vines are remarkably hardy and prolific, yielding 

 almost a certain crop both North and South. The variety 

 ripens early ; the plants suffer but little from the depredations 

 of bugs or worms ; and "the fruit, with trifling care, may be 

 preserved throughout the year. It is also quite uniform in 

 quality ; being seldom of the coarse and stringy character so 

 common to other varieties of this class. 



Cashaw. 

 CUSHAW PUMP- 

 KIN. 



Somewhat of the form and color of the Com- 

 mon Winter Crookneck. Two prominent vari- 

 eties, however, occur. The first is nearly round ; the other 

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