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projection upon it, consisting of the permanent fleshy style. 

 The fruit-stalk is short, nearly cylindrical, never deeply five- 

 furrowed, but merely longitudinally striated or wrinkled, and 

 never c'avated, or enlarged with projecting angles, next to 

 the fruit. With few exceptions, they contain four or five 

 double rows of seeds. To this group belongs Mr. Ives's 

 Autumnal Marrow Squash (or Pumpkin) ; Commodore Por- 

 ter's Valparaiso Squash (Pumpkin) ; the so-called Mam- 

 moth Pumpkin, or Cucurbita maxima of the botanists ; the 

 Turban or Acorn Squash ; Cucurbita piliformis of Duchesne ; 

 the Cashew Pumpkin ; Stetson's Hybrid, called the ' Wilder 

 Squash ; ' with various others." 



Plant twelve feet and upwards in length ; Vegetable 



Marrow, 

 leaves deeply five-lobed ; fruit about nine inches Tkomp. 



. ... SUCCADE GOURD. 



long, and ot an elliptic shape, but it is some- 

 times grown to twice that length, and of an oblong form ; 

 surface slightly uneven, by irregular, longitudinal, obtuse 

 ribs, which terminate in a projecting apex at the extremity 

 of the fruit. When mature, it is of a uniform pale yellow 

 or straw color. The skin, or shell, is very hard when the 

 fruit is perfectly ri- 

 pened ; flesh white, 

 tender, and succulent, 

 even till the seeds are 

 ripe. It may be used 

 in every stage of its 

 growth. Some prefer 



it When the flower is Vegetable Marrow Squash. 



still at the extremity of the fruit; others like it older. 

 When well ripened, it will keep throughout the winter, if 

 stored in a perfectly dry place, out of the reach of fros% 

 and not exposed to great changes of temperature. 



To have Vegetable Marrows large and fine for winter, the 

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