io6 Notes and Gleanings. 



broadest part ; the neck is usually about two inches in thickness ; color cloar, 

 bright yellow ; skin very warty, thin, and easily broken by the nail while the 

 fruit is young, and suitable for use ; as the season of maturity approaches, the 

 rind gradually becomes firmer, and, when fully ripe, is hard and shell-like ; flesh 

 greenish-yellow, dry, and well-flavored ; seeds comparatively small, broad in 

 proportion to the length, and of a pale-yellow color. About four hundred are 

 contained in an ounce. 



The Bush Summer Crookneck is generally esteemed the finest of the summer 

 varieties, but is used only while young and tender, or when the skin can be easily 

 pierced or broken by the nail. After the fruit hardens, the flesh becomes watery, 

 coarse, strong-flavored, and unfit for table use. 



On account of the dwarfish character of the plants, the hills may be made 

 four feet apart. Three plants will be sufficient for a hill. 



Early IVJiitc Bush Scalloped. — This is a sub-variety of the Early Yellow 

 Scalloped. The plant has the same dwarf habit, and tlie fruit is nearly of the 

 same size and form. The principal distinction between the varieties consists in 

 the difference of color. 



By some, the white variety is considered a little inferior in fineness of 

 texture and in flavor to the yellow ; though the white is much the more abundant 

 in the markets. Both of the varieties are hardy and productive; and there is 

 but li'ttle difference in tlie season of their maturity. 



Early Yelloiv Bush Scalloped. — Plant dwarf, of rather erect habit, and about 

 two feet and a half in height ; leaves large, clear-green ; fruit somewhat of a 

 hemispherical form, expanded at the edge, which is deeply and very regularly 

 scalloped. When suitable for use, it measures about five inches in diameter, and 

 three inches in depth ; but, when fully matured, the diameter is often ten or twelve 

 inches, and even upwards ; color yellow ; skin, while young, thin, and easily 



pierced ; at "maturity, hard and shell-like ; flesh pale-yellow, tolerably fine- 

 grained, and well-flavored, not, however, quite so dry and sweet as that of the 

 Summer Crookneck ; seeds broader in proportion to their length than the seeds 

 of most varieties, and of comparatively small size. Four hundred and twenty- 

 five weigh an ounce. 



This variety has been common to the gardens of this country for up-.vards of 

 a century, during which period tlie form and general character have lecn very 

 slightly, if at all, changed. When grown in the vicinity of the Bush Summer 

 Crookneck, the surface sometimes exhibits the same wart-like excrescences ; 



