Vegetables of the Vine Family 



a spadeful at a time — and planted where they 

 were wanted and the entire patch was very thrifty 

 and bore abundantly. 



Spraying, hand picking and attention to culti- 

 vation are essential in growing squash as with 

 other garden crops. The dust-mulchc is the one 

 certain assurance against failure. 



The Hubbard Squash, both Golden and 

 Warted, have long been standard sorts, but both 

 have lost, through much careless breeding, the 

 qualities which distinguished them — diyness and 

 sweetness. It is practically impossible of late 

 years to find an individual of either variety that 

 is really dry or sweet or that has keeping qual- 

 ities equal to the early sorts. In the Delicious 

 we have a much superior squash whose dryness 

 is notable and sweetness all that one could de- 

 sire, even small, immature specimens possess the 

 quality in high degree. Unless one has home 

 grown seed from a Hubbard that was perfect in 

 these qualities I should advise planting the seed 

 of Delicious and saving one's own seed from the 

 best specimen of that. 



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