1856. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



281 



For the New England Farmer. 



A NEW SaUASH FOR WINTER AND 

 SPRING USE. 



Mr. Editor : — I would recommend to Mr, 

 E. G. Crowell, (and have sent him seed) the 

 Hubbard squash, as the best varietj- for the table 

 ■with which I am acquainted ; best for quality, and 

 best for keeping — always excepting the crookneck 

 for a keeper. This squash is a hard shelled variety, 

 the shell of pure specimens being nearly one-eighth 

 of an inch in thickness. In size it is about one- 

 third hea\'ier than the pure marrow, weighing 

 about nine lbs. when fully grown. Its color is 

 greenish black, and when grown under very favor- 

 able circumstances, lead color. It is fine grained, 

 of excellent flavor, very sweet and very "mealy." 

 The only objections I have ever heard made 

 against it, were on the part of some that it was too 

 sweet, and by others, that it was too dry. A first- 

 rate specimen tastes much like a boiled chestnut, 

 and will make a very fair pie without sweetening. 

 Ihey are dryest late in the fall, and sweetest to- 

 wards spring. 



Respecting their keeping qualities, I have kept 

 specimens in a cool dry place, till Maj-. The last 

 sound specimen of last season's crop, I brought to 

 the table towards the close of April. In hardiness 

 and prcductivenes they rank about with the mar- 

 row. I have never found it necessary, during the 

 years we have raised them, to take extra precau- 

 tions, beyond what are necessary for the perfection 

 of ordinary squashes, giving them a warm rich soil. 

 A farmer, who for the two past years has raised 

 this variety for the market, informs me that he 

 has sold it at double the price per lb. of the pure 

 marrow, to customers who have once tested its 

 quality. 



Of its history, I know next to nothing, farther 

 than that the seed was given to me by an aged fe- 

 male, about twelve years since, in remembrance of 

 whom I named it, and that the party from whom 

 she received it cannot tell from whence the seed 

 came. I infer that it is of foreign origin, partly 

 from the fact that the gentleman to whom I traced 

 it is a resident of a sea-port town, and is largely 

 connected with those who follow the seas. 



As Mr. Crowell is total stranger to me, we may 

 consider him an impartial judge ; if, therefore, this 

 variety of squash, when planted in warm rich land, 

 is not up to the character I have here given, taking 

 pure specimens as samples, and dating his test from 

 about the middle of November, I hope he will 

 qualify these statements in as public a manner as I 

 now make them. 



I have made an article more lengthy than I at 

 first intended, but I consider a squash of superior 

 quality and keeping as a rare and excellent table 

 delicacy, and therefore, well worthy of having its 

 good qualities set forth, to induce a more general 

 cultivation. J. J, H. G. 



Implements Sold in Boston. — The report of 

 the Boston Board of Trade gives the following sta- 

 tistics : Ten years ago, the total value of Agricul- 

 tural Tools produced in Massachusetts was only 

 $650,723. Now there are in Boston alone five ag- 

 ricultural warehouses whose united sales in 1855 

 were two and a half million dollars. Among the 

 articles sold, the curious reader will notice 3(3,950 

 plows, 93,000 shovels, 60,600 hoes, 60,000 forks 



138,600 rakes, 33,600 scythes, 12,000 axes, 6,750 

 wheelbarrows, 11,900 hay-cutters, 12,165 corn- 

 shellers, 5,815 cultivators, 5,100 grain-cradles, 1,850 

 horse-rakes, &c., &c. One house alone sold 100 

 tons of clover seed, 10,000 bushels of Timothy seed- 

 and 7,500 bushels of red-top. 



BELLE LUCRATIVE AND WASHING- 

 TON PEARS. 



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CRATITE.- 

 danle de Automne. — Medial ; 

 round-obovate; pale yelloAv- 

 ish green, slight russet; stalk 

 medial, stout, obliquely set in 

 a slight cavity ; calyx open, 

 in a moderate depression ; 

 flesh melting, extremely jui- 

 cy; of a rich, honeyed, aro- 



matic flavor. Latter part of September. In a warm 

 soil and favorable season, it has no superior, but it 

 varies. Hardy, and good bearer. Does not bhght 

 nor crack. Poorer in moist soil. Not well tested 

 in orchard culture. Foreign. 



Washington. — Dotted Outline. — Small medial ; 

 oval-obovate ; bright yellow, ruddy cheek, and red 

 spots ; stem medial, slender, slight cavity ; shallow 

 basin ; flesh white, fine, melting, sweet, delicious 

 and perfumed ; uniformly good. September 10 to 

 October. Rather small for market. Fine for the 

 amateur, particularly further south. Small grower, 

 good bearer. Beautiful fruit. Origin, Gen. Ro- 

 bertson's estate, Del. — Cole's Fruit Book. 



One Acre to sltport a Cow through the 

 Year ! — In an article on the "Rural Economy of 

 the British Isles," in another column, it is stated 

 that on the farm of Mr. Littledale, on the river 

 Mersey, opposite Liverpool, eighty-three milch cows 

 and fifteen working horses are kept through the 

 year on the product of eighty acres ! This should 

 be an example to American farmers. We believe 

 that a cow may, and should be, well supported 

 through the entire year, on the product of a single 

 acre. Indeed, we have a few among us who al- 

 ready accomplish it. When this result is more gen- 

 erally attained, we shall hear less complaint of lim- 



