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CVCURBITACEOUS PLANTS. 



broad in proportion to the length, and of a pale-yellow 

 color ; four hundred are contained in an 

 ounce. 



The Bush Summer Crookneck is gener- 

 ally 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. 



As a class, the summer varieties are 

 Bush summer warted greatly inferior to the later sorts in fineness 

 of texture, sweetness and delicacy of flavor. 



Crookneck Squash. 



This is a Sub - variet 7 of the Early Yellow 

 loped. Scalloped. The plant has the same dwarf 



WHITE PATTYPAN. 



CTMLINO. WHITE habit, and the fruit is nearly of the same 



SUMMER SCAL- * 



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 

 little difference in the season of their maturity. 



In the month of June, large quantities are shipped from 

 the Southern and Middle States to the North and East, 

 where they anticipate from two to three weeks the products 

 of the home-market gardens ; the facilities afforded by steam 

 transportation rendering nearly profitless the efforts of gar- 

 deners to obtain an early crop. As the variety keeps well, 

 and suffers little from transportation, the squashes are gen- 

 erally found fresh and in good order on their arrival. 



