PUMPKINS 



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Globe Mammoth Pumpkin. In some respects the fruit 

 resembles that of the preceding sort. The colour is the same, 



Globe Mammoth Pumpkin. 



but it is spherical in shape. In size it surpasses it, however, 

 and attains enormous dimensions. The flesh is yellow and delicate 

 and x keeps well during winter. 



Etampes Pumpkin. Fruit of medium size, not so broad 

 as that of the Large 

 Yellow Pumpkin, but 

 relatively thicker ; ribs 

 broad and well marked ; 

 skin a very bright and 

 distinct orange colour. 

 The cultivation of this 

 variety has been very 

 much extended of late 

 years, and it is now 

 the kind which is most 

 frequently seen in the 

 Central Market at Paris. 

 In its habit of growth 

 it resembles the Large 

 Yellow Pumpkin, but 

 its leaves are rather 

 paler. There are two 

 forms of it, one of which has the fruit quite smooth. This we 

 consider to be truer to name than the other form, which has the skin 



Ltampes Pumpkin ( T ^ natural size). 



