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CUCURBITACEOUS PLANTS. 



its quality approaches that of the Hubbard and Autumnal 

 Marrow ; seeds white. 



The variety is hardy and productive, keeps well, and is 

 deserving of cultivation. When grown in the vicinity of 

 the last-named sorts, it often becomes mixed, and rapidly 

 degenerates. In its purity it is uniformly of one color ; 

 with perhaps the exception of the under surface, which is 

 sometimes paler or yellowish. It has been suggested that 

 this variety and the Hubbard may have originated under 

 similar circumstances. 



Turban. Plant running ; leaves of medium size, soft, 



R^? TSA s lieh% lobed on the borders ; fruit rounded, 

 flattened, expanding about the stem to a broad, plain, brick- 

 red surface, of ten or twelve inches in diameter. At the 



Turban Squash. 



Section. 



blossom-end the fruit suddenly contracts to an irregular, 

 cone-like point, or termination, usually of a greenish color, 

 striped with white, but sometimes yellowish-white without 

 the stripes or variegations ; and thus, in form and color, 

 somewhat resembles a turban, whence the name. Flesh 

 orange-yellow, thick, fine-grained, sugary, and well flavored ; 

 seeds white, comparatively short, and small. 



