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shall be able to give some account of this variety, gathered from 

 its cultivation in our own gardens. 



Squashes. — The autumnal marrow, noticed by us in our I, 

 p. 28, has become a very favorite variety. In Essex County, 

 and particularly around Salem, where it was first introduced, 

 immense quantities have been raised both for private use and for 

 the market. In Lynn, we believe, one farmer raised twenty 

 tons the past year. They are ripe for eating very early in Au- 

 gust and September, on good soils, and keep as well as the 

 crookneck. They also command a very good price. It has 

 been stated that the autumnal marrow was superior to all other 

 squashes: it may be so to some; but, in our opinion, a true 

 Canada crookneck is a far more excellent vegetable; but as the 

 latter is so apt to get mixed with the common crookneck, which 

 is much coarser, and inferior in many respects, the autumnal 

 marrow offers an excellent substitute. It produces great crops, 

 and with a certainty of being mostly matured, even in the cold- 

 est seasons, if the two last may be considered standards from 

 which to draw conclusions. It should be strongly impressed 

 upon the minds of those who cultivate this variety, that they 

 must either procure their seeds from those who can be depended 

 upon, or, should they raise their own, they must be particular to 

 save only from such as could not have had their blossoms fertil- 

 ized by any other kind. 



The apple squash is the name of a fine little summer variety, 

 deserving of extensive growth. It is decidedly superior to 

 either the common bush or scollop, or the summer crookneck. 

 We believe it is not very new, although it is rarely met with ii* 

 gardens; it is, however, too valuable to suffer such neglect. It 

 may be also used as a winter squash in the early months of that 

 season, when it will be found a capital vegetable. We bespeak 

 for it a place in the garden of every cultivator of vegetables for 

 his own use. 



Tomato. — Some time since we received a few seeds of th& 

 small yellow fruited tomato from our friend and correspondent. 

 Dr. Ward, of Athens, Ga. This variety, he informed us, was 

 greatly preferred to the common large fruited, in that section of 

 the country, and was cultivated, to the almost entire exclusion 

 of the latter. Our seeds were planted so late in the spring, and 

 the season was so cold, that but six or seven of the fruits ripen- 

 ed; and as we wished to preserve them for the seed, we did not 

 have an opportunity to fully ascertain their merits; but from a 

 trial of one or two of these, we should not hesitate to recom- 

 mend this variety for extensive growth. 



We had intended to make some general remarks upon the past 

 season as favorable or unfavorable to the growth of vegetables; 

 but we have already occupied so much room, that for the pres- 

 ent we close this article. 



