Notes and Gleanws'S. 



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Field and Garden Vegetables. — We give our readers still further ex- 

 tracts from Burr's excellent work on vegetables : — 



Squashes. — Cocoanut Squash. — Fruit oval, elongated, sixteen to twenty- 

 inches in length, eight or ten inches in diameter, and weighing from fifteen to 

 twenty pounds and upwards ; skin thin, easily pierced or broken, of an ash-gray 



color, spotted and marked with light-drab and nankeen-brown, the furrows divid- 

 ing the ribs light drab ; stem small ; flesh deep orange-yellow, of medium thick- 

 ness ; seeds pure white, broader in proportion to their length than those of the 

 Hubbard or Boston Marrow. 



The quality of the Cocoanut Squash is extremely variable : sometimes the 

 flesh is fine grained, dry, sweet, and of a rich, nut-like flavor ; but well-developed 

 and apparently well-matured specimens are often coarse, fibrous, watery, and 

 unfit for table-use. The variety ripens in September, and will keep till March 

 or April. 



Ciistard Squash, — Plant healthy and of vigorous habit, often twenty feet and 



upwards in length ; fruit oblong, gathered in deep folds or wrinkles at the stem, 

 near which it is the smallest, abruptly shortened at the opposite extremity, prom- 



