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Squashes. — We continue our extracts from " The Field and Garden Ver;e- 

 tables of America : " — 



The Hubbai-d Squash should be grown in hills seven feet apart, and three 

 plants allowed to a hill. It is essential that the planting be made as far as possi- 

 ble from similar varieties, as it mixes, or hybridizes, readily with all of its kind. I.i 

 point of productiveness, it is about equal to the Autumnal Marrow. The average 

 yield from six acres was nearly five tons of marketable squashes to the acre. 



Mr. J. J. H. Gregory of Marblehead, Mass., v.ho brought this excellent variety to 

 notice, and through whose exertions it has become widely disseminated, states 

 that it was introduced into Marblehead about sixty years since by an elderly man 

 who followed marketing from the vicinity of Boston. 



Though there appears to be nothing in its history that forbids its having been 

 l>reviously cultivated elsewhere, very few have claimed this to have been the fact ; 

 and none who have done so seem to have stood the test of a fair criticism. 



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