An eight- to ten-pound squash, Cuciirbita maxima, imported from Turkey 

 by the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction under the name 

 Balkabagi, was found to have excellent table quality. Both blue-grev and 

 orange squash was inbred until purified for color, shape, and qualitv and 

 then crossed with New Hampshire Bush Buttercup variety, previously de- 

 scribed in Station Bulletin 380. It was desired to bring into combination 

 for a new variety, earlv, modified, bush-type plants and orange fruits simi- 

 lar to the Buttercup in quality. After five generations of self-pollination 

 of selections made in the second generation from this cross, a squash 

 variety with bright orange color, rich orange flesh of high quality, and 

 productive of fruits borne close in at the crown of the plant is available 

 for testing further in northern states. The plants set one or two, four- to 

 five-pound fruits within two feet of the base of the plant, and following 

 their ripening, more squashes develop further out on the vines which seldom 

 exceed ten or twelve feet in length. Orange Buttercup should be an ex- 

 cellent home garden variety and excell for the roadside market trade be- 

 cause of the bright attractive orange color of fruits. 



Orange Bush Squash 



An extremely early, modified, bush-type squash, orange in color and similar 

 to Orange Buttercup in quality, seems assured from a cross of an orange 

 bush squash. Cheyenne 4^54125-1 from the United States Horticultural 

 Station, Cheyenne. Wyoming, and New Hampshire Bush Buttercup. The 

 second generation from this cross has been grown. At blossom time, the 

 pistillate flowers of plants which mature green-colored fruits have light 

 green ovaries and those which ripen orange fruits have light yellow ovaries. 

 Only the yellow ovary plants were saved and self-pollinated in the field in 

 1956. Those squashes selected for seed after passing a cooking test had a 

 bright orange skin and rich orange flesh of fine flavor and they were dry. 

 The shapes were similar to Buttercup and the squash sizes varied from 



This is an orange bush-type squash. The picture shows a plant with fruits set 

 at the crown of the plant. This variety is not yet ready for introduction, however. 



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