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NEW VEGETABLES. 



The following brief descriptions of some of the more recent kinds of 

 culinary vegetables may be of interest, and perhaps will prove of service, 

 to the readers of the Journal. A few of these descriptions have been pre- 

 pared from the experience of a single season ; but, in most instances, they 

 have been drawn from a careful trial of their merits during two or more 

 j-ears. 



Of the Squash, three varieties were tested as follows : — 



Bolton. — Distinct and well-defined. The fruit is of an ash-green color, 

 nearly cylindrical, twelve or fourteen inches long, and four or five inches 

 in diameter. The flesh is very thick, the cavity small, and the weight 

 remarkable. The seeds are white. It keeps through the winter, and is of 

 good quality, but inferior to the Hubbard or autumnal marrow. The name 

 is evidently local, and its origin unknown. 



Moore's Vegetable Cream. — An English variety, resembling the vegetable 

 marrow, which is also of foreign origin. The fruit is small, oblong, cream- 

 yellow, and the stem furrowed and woody. Flesh moderately thick, pale- 

 yellow, and similar in quality to the vegetable marrow and custard ; to 

 which class it evidently belongs, and with which it would probably readily 

 intermix or hybridize. 



In England and the Provinces, these varieties are highly esteemed, and 

 are often catalogued and described simply as " vegetable marrow," or 

 " vegetable cream ; " the general term " squash " being omitted. In some 

 forms of cookery, they may be desirable ; but, as a whole, they are greatly 

 inferior to the autumnal marrow, Hubbard, or true Canada crookneck. 

 Hardiness, adaptedness to cool, humid climates, productiveness, and good 

 keeping properties, are their principal recommendations. The terms " cus- 

 tard," " vegetable marrow," and " vegetable cream," by which these varieties 

 are known, are calculated to convey wrong impressions of their real char- 

 acter ; and I regret the disappointment of those, who, having been accus- 

 tomed to the genuine luxury of the Hubbard, autumnal marrow, or Canada 

 crookneck, have been induced to cultivate " vegetable cream " as a sub- 

 stitute. 



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