The Busy Woman s Garden Book 



it a very satisfactory substitute will be found in 

 the English marrow; this is a bush form of the 

 vegetable marrows and occupies about as much 

 ground as an egg-plant. The vine sorts are such 

 rampant growers that they require a garden to 

 themselves or at least a walled enclosure, but they 

 are very profitable to grow as they produce 

 enormously and the fruit is excellent fried like 

 egg plant ; few, if any, persons would be able to 

 distinguish between them and the difference, if 

 any, would be in favor of the marrow. 



Rich warm soil is required for all the squash 

 family and the bush varieties are no exceptions. 

 Give in addition to the usual manuring of the 

 garden a good forkful of manure in each hill. 

 Space the hills four feet apart each way and 

 plant several seeds in each hill to provide for 

 the appetite of the squash bugs which make no 

 exception in favor of bush varieties ; when danger 

 of bugs is past the plants should be thinned to 

 three or four plants in a hill. 



To repel the squash vine borer scatter a hand- 

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