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inches long, one to one and a half in diameter; coral- 

 red when ripe; intensely pungent. 



Tabasco. Tall habit; three to four feet in height; 

 bears in profusion slender fruit one inch in length; 

 deep scarlet when ripe; intensely pungent. 



PUMPKIN. 



Canada. Oblate form, deeply and regularly ribbed; 

 comparatively large size, twelve to fourteen inches in 

 diameter, about ten in depth; shell or rind thick and 

 hard ; deep orange-yellow in color; flesh yellow, fine- 

 grained; more flattened in form than the Common Field 

 variety. 



Cashaw. Curved, crookneck form, solid and cylin- 

 drical, thickened more or less at the blossom end; large 

 size, reaching fifty pounds or more in weight; color of 

 rind light-cream; flesh yellow, fine-grained, sweet. 



Cheese. Fruit much flattened, cheese-shaped, regu- 

 larly ribbed; large size, fourteen to sixteen inches in 

 diameter, eight to ten in depth; rind quite hard, deep 

 reddish-orange in color; flesh thick, yellow, fine-grained, 

 sweet. 



Connecticut Field. Fruit rounded, more deep than 

 broad, flattened at ends, regularly and prominently 

 ribbed; twelve to fifteen inches long, ten to twelve in 

 diameter; rind hard, color orange-yellow, flesh yellow, 

 coarse-grained. 



Japanese or Japanese Pie. Early, medium-sized, 

 crooknecked ; rind dark-green, mottled with yellow 

 stripes; flesh deep orange; fine-grained, sweet. 



Mammoth Potiron, or Jumbo, King of the Mam- 

 moth. Rounded, thickened form, depressed at ends, 

 slightly ribbed; rind salmon-orange; flesh deep yellow. 

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