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most wholly to the bush varieties. Until recently, the 

 New York market for fall and winter squashes has been 

 supplied largely by the growers around Boston. 



I find that there is a strong belief among prominent 

 seedsmen in the Middle States, that the running varieties 

 of squashes will not succeed in their section — they will 

 not form the thick, fleshy root, they say. We, in the 

 North, have always looked upon the squash as* a half 

 tropical fruit, and anticipated finding greater and greater 

 success in its cultivation, the farther South it was planted. 

 It has all the characteristics of a semi-tropical plant, like 

 the tomato and melon, and should it be true that there is 

 such a climacteric limitation, it would be a marked excep- 

 tion to a general law. I presume a canvass of my cor- 

 respondence would settle the question, and regret that I 

 have not time to do this ; yet I have but little doubt that, 

 under proper culture in the South, our running varieties . 

 would do as well, or better, than they do North. It oc- 

 curs to me, at this moment, that Dr. Phillips, the enter- 

 prising editor of the Southern Farmer, stated to me, in 

 the course of correspondence, that he had raised them by 

 the acre in Mississippi with complete success. 



The standard summer varieties are the Yellow and 



White Bush Scollop, often 

 called Pattypan or Cym- 

 bals, and the Summer 

 Crookneck. Of these the 

 Summer Crookneck is the 

 best. All of these form a 

 shell as they ripen, and are 

 then unfit for the table. 

 They should not be cooked 



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alter the shell can be felt by 

 the thumb-nail. The Green Striped Bergen is an early 

 variety, quite popular in the markets of New York. A 

 small squash, about twice the^ize of a large orange, some- 



