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is hardier, yields more abundantly ; and the fruit, besides being quite sweet and 

 delicate, is a much better keeper, and nearly or quite equal in quality to that of 

 the best Autumnal Marrow. 



YokohaiJia. — A new variety recently introduced in this country from Japan. 

 Stem running, attaining a length of twelve feet and upwards ; fruit roundish, 

 much flattened, strongly ribbed, deeply sunk at the blossom-end and about the 

 stem ; eight or ten inches at its largest diameter, and weighing from six to 



twelve pounds ; skin warted, green while the fruit is young, but afterwards grad- 

 ually changing to yellow or dull orange ; stem long and slender, woody, elevated, 

 and furrowed, resembling a sugar pumpkin ; flesh orange-yellow, fine-grained, 

 dry, and sweet ; seeds small, somewhat resembling those of the scalloped, or 

 warted crookneck. Season from July to March. 



Turban. — Plant running ; leaves of medium size, soft, slightly lobed on the 

 borders ; fruit rounded, flattened, expanding about the stem to a broad, plain, 



brick-red surface, of ten or twelve inches in diameter. At tlie blossom-end, tlie 

 fruit suddenly contracts to an irregular, cone-like point or termination, usually of 

 a greenish color, striped with white, but sometimes yellowish-white without the 

 stripes or variegations, and thus in form and color somewhat resembles a turban ; 

 whence the name. Flesh orange-yellow, thick, fine-grained, sugary, and well fla- 



