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Notes and Gleanings. 



The original squash was green, and the blue sub-variety is believed to have 

 been produced by a cross with the Sweet-potato Squash. In the color of the 

 shell of these hybrids, in the lighter orange tint of the flesh, and sometimes in 

 the form, the old sweet-potato variety can yet be traced. 



Sweet-potato Squash. — Plant similar in character to that of the Hubbard or 

 Autumnal Marrow. Fruit twelve or fourteen inches long, seven or eight inches 

 thick ; sometimes ribbed, but frequently without rib-markings ; oblong, taper- 

 ing to the ends, which are often bent or curved in the manner of some of the 

 types of the Hubbard ; stem of medium size, striated skin ash-green, with a 

 smooth, polished surface ; flesh salmon-yellow, thick, fine-grained, dry, and 



sweet. If the variety is pure, and the fruit well matured, its quality approaches 

 that of the Hubbard and Autumnal Marrow ; seed white. 



The variety is hardy and productive, keeps well, and is deserving of cultiva- 

 tion. When grown in the vicinity of the last-named sorts, it often becomes 

 mixed, and rapidly degenerates. In its purity it is uniformly of one color, with 

 perhaps the exception of the under surface, which is sometimes paler or yellow- 

 ish. It has been suggested that this variety and the Hubbard may have origi- 

 nated under similar circumstances. 



Improved Turban Squash. — A sub-variety ; probably the result of acclima- 



tion ; is known as the Improved Turban. Compared with the original, the plant 



