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the Ohio Squash, but it is often shorter, more pointed at the 

 stalk end, and is quite different in colour, being dark green, 



sometimes marbled with 

 brick-red. The flesh is 

 dark yellow, very floury, 

 not very sweet, rather 

 dry, and, in America, is 

 considered to be of ex- 

 cellent quality ; it also 

 keeps good for a very 

 long time. The skin is 

 so hard and thick that 

 it cannot always be cut 

 with an ordinary knife. 

 A plant will carry and 

 ripen five or six fruit well. 

 Warted Hubbard 

 Squash. Only differs 

 from the Hubbard Squash 

 in having the skin com- 



Hubbard Squash (^ natural size). 



pletely covered with protuberances larger than in the type. 



Golden Hubbard Squash. Differs from the type in being 

 orange-red. 



Marble-head Squash. 

 Another American 

 variety ; differs from the 

 Hubbard only in being 

 ashy gray. 



Olive Squash. A 

 vigorous variety, derived 

 from C. maxima. The 

 fruit weigh from 6 to 

 II lb., and in shape and 

 colour resemble an olive. 

 The skin is smooth, the 

 rind thin, and the flesh 

 golden-yellow, firm, very 

 abundant, and of fine 

 quality. Its weak point is 

 its lateness in the climate 

 of Paris. 



Ohio Squash, or 



Californian Marrow. A oiive Squash, 



variety of American origin. 



Stem creeping, 16 to nearly 20 ft. long ; leaves entire, round, 

 kidney-shaped, or with five faintly marked lobes, sometimes 



