184 VEGETABLE GROWING. 



PUMPKINS. 



As this crop is not one that brings in money, it usu- 

 ally has to content itself by growing on such land as 

 is either not wanted for other crops or as can be spared. 

 Not that a rich warm loam will not produce the largest 

 crop, but that it pays better when planted to many 

 other crops. Consequently, pumpkins are usually 

 planted on new land that has not been subdued or on 

 waste land. 



In cultivating, care should be taken not to tear the 

 soil up deeply about the plants that have begun to run. 

 Like other plants of the gourd family, it is a shallow 

 feeder. Any one desiring to plant a crop will find 

 that the directions given for squashes are approximate- 

 ly correct for this one. 



There are two varieties with several sorts under each 

 variety; the one variety is coarse-grained and large, 

 used to feed stock ; the other variety is often called 

 the Yankee pumpkin it is fine-grained, hard, and 

 sweet ; it is also called the pie-pumpkin. The later 

 variety is the one planted for marketing in New Eng- 

 land. 



Only a very few can be marketed in the South. 



