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CUCURBITACEOUS PLANTS. 



Hubbard Squash. 



The Hubbard Squash 

 should be grown in hills 

 seven feet apart, and 

 three plants allowed to a 

 hill. It is essential that 

 the planting be made as 

 far as possible from simi- 

 lar varieties, as it mixes, 

 or hybridizes, readily 

 with all of its kind. In 



point of productiveness it is about equal to the Autumnal 

 Marrow. The average yield from six acres was nearly five 

 tons of marketable squashes to the acre. 



Mr. J. J. H. Gregory, of Marblehead, Mass., who brought 

 this excellent variety to notice, and through whose exertions 

 it has become widely disseminated, states that it was intro- 

 duced into Marblehead about sixty years since by an elderly 

 man, who followed marketing, from the vicinity of Boston. 

 Though there appears to be nothing in its history that for- 

 bids its having been previously cultivated elsewhere, very 

 few have claimed this to have been the fact, and none 

 who have done so seem to have stood the test of a fair 

 criticism. 



The original squash was green, and the blue sub-variety is 

 believed to have been produced by a cross with the Sweet 

 Potato Squash. In the color of the shell of these hybrids, 

 in the lighter orange tint of the flesh, and sometimes in the 

 form, the old Sweet Potato variety can yet be traced. 



Italian Veg- Plant dwarf, bushy, with short, reclining 

 etable Mar- 

 row. Thomp. stems, and upright leaves, which are deeply 



five-lobed. The fruits are used when the flowers are about 

 to drop from their ends. They are then from four to five 

 inches long, and an inch and a half to two inches in diameter. 



