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It is a hardy and productive variety ; ripens its crop with 

 great certainty ; suffers less from the depredations of in- 

 sects than most of the winter sorts ; and, if protected from 

 cold and dampness during the winter months, will keep the 

 entire year. 



This is a sub-variety of the Common Win- -winter 

 ter Crookneck. Skin pale green, or light croSmeck 

 cream-white, diversified with lengthwise stripes 

 and plashes of bright green. 



A new variety, recently introduced into this Yokohama, 

 country from Japan. Stem running, attain- 

 ing 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 



Yokohama Squash. 



warted, green while the fruit is young, but afterwards grad- 

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

 slender, woody, clavated, and furrowed, like that of the 

 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. 



