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Orange-coloured Custard Marrow. Like the preceding kind 

 in shape, but of a far more vivid colour, resembling that of a ripe 

 Orange. 



White Bush Scallop Custard Marrow. A milky white 

 coloured variety with very large flat fruit. 



Striped Custard Marrow. Stems often running ; fruit rather 

 small, with faintly marked teeth, and very prettily variegated with 

 green and white. 



White Flat Waited Custard Marrow. Fruit with faintly 

 marked lobes or teeth ; skin creamy white, covered all over with 

 roundish warts. 



All these varieties pro- 

 duce numbers of small fruit. 

 A strong plant may be 

 allowed to carry ten or 

 twelve. 



Improved Variegated 

 Custard Marrow is dis- 

 tinguished from the pre- 

 ceding kinds by the much 

 greater size of its fruit, ___ 



which often weighs 7 or 8 Ib. ^ y ~ ^ ed Custard 



A plant Should not, as a Q natural size). 



rule, be allowed to carry 



more than three or four. In shape and colour the fruit resembles 



that of the Common Variegated Custard Marrow. 



Under the name of Pineapple Squash, Potato Squash, or 

 Congo Squash, a variety is grown in the United States which is 

 yellow in colour, and long conical in shape, and differs also from 

 our European varieties in being trailing. 



FANCY GOURDS 



French, Coloquintes. German, Kleine Zierkiirbisse. Dutch, Kawoerd appel. 

 Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese, Coloquintida. 



The true Colocynth is an exclusively medicinal plant, and 

 seldom cultivated, and the name Colocynth is a misapplication 

 only sanctioned by usage, when it is employed to denote a large 

 number of varieties of Gourds with small fleshy fruit, the chief 

 merit of which consists in the elegance or singularity of their shape, 

 and the handsome colours which they exhibit when ripe. The 

 skin of these fruit usually becomes very hard, and the pulp in the 

 interior dries up rather quickly, in consequence of which they 

 keep much longer than most of the edible kinds. In habit of 

 growth the Fancy Gourds, or Colocynths, resemble the varieties of 

 Cucurbita Pepo. The stems, leaves, flowers, and fruit are generally 



