Jonah's Miraculous Gourd Was Not 

 More Wonderful Than These Which 

 Grow on a Farm in New Jersey 



A sugar bowl and spoons made from "dipper 

 gourds." By careful crossing of varieties the re- 

 sultant vines are made to produce strange fruit 



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These fortunate 

 small boys needed 

 no expensive base- 

 ball equipment. 

 Their bat and balls 

 were picked from 

 the gourd vines 



Smoking set, lamp, 

 and gourd on which 

 guests register. All 

 these photographs 

 were taken on Mr. 

 E. E. Wilcox's large 

 New Jersey farm 



A gourd kih>i.i.in iL.cmbks a strange gymnnsium with giouiiii; dumb bdls, Indian clubs 

 and punching bags. Gourds, although planted in the same way, should not be grown 

 near squashes, watermelons, cucumbers or pumpkins, because useless crosses result 



