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bard, and for some years I spoke of two varieties of the 

 Hubbard, a green and a blue kind. On testing the blue 

 variety by itself, I found it had the characteristic of all 

 hybrids, a tendency to sport. For this reason, of late 

 years I have endeavored to throw it entirely out of cul- 

 tivation in my seed stock. 



After the Hubbard squash became somewhat noted, a 

 communication occasionally appeared in the Press claiming 

 that it was but an old variety revived. After giving all 

 these claims, including those made to me personally by 

 private correspondence, a fair examination, I am persuaded 

 that the Hubbard is not an old variety revived, and that 

 until it was sent out from Marblehead, with the exception 

 of such cases as could be traced to seed distributed occa- 

 sionally by me during the course of few years previous, it 

 it was unkown in the United States. In my endeavors to 

 trace its origin, the nearest I have come to it was in a 

 variety of squash procured from one of the West India 

 Islands, which had many characteristics in common with 

 the Hubbard, though the shells of the squash were uni- 

 formly blue in color, and its quality was somewhat inferior. 



Several claimed that it was but the Sweet Potato squash 

 revived. I have raised a squash called by that name my- 

 self, and have seen two or more other lots that were raised 

 by friends, from seed procured in different sections of the 

 United States, and never saw one yet that resembled the 

 green Hubbard. 



The apparent connection between the Sweet Potato and 

 Hubbard squash, I am convinced, has been made through 

 the blue variety, which, when without a shell, has a close 

 resemblance to some of those kinds that go under the 

 name of "Sweet Potato" squash. 



American Turban Squash.— I have given the prefix 

 American Turban Squash, to distinguish it from the French 

 Turban, with which many seedsmen have confounded it. 

 The French Turban is the most beautiful in color, and the 



