worthy of general cnltivation. 95 



tmal journals, we think it will prove an acquisition to our agri- 

 culture. 



Squashes. — The autumnal marrow is now one of the most 

 esteemed squashes, both for fall and winter use, and it commands 

 a higher price in the market than any other, not even excepting 

 the true Canada. The only fault is that, from the difficulty of 

 obtaining the seed pure, many individuals have been greatly 

 disappointed in their crop, and in the place of autunmal mar- 

 rows, they have had almost every variety of squash except 

 the true one. To keep them pure, no other sort should be 

 grown near them, and perhaps it would be the safest way to 

 have no other squash in a small garden, if these are preferred, 

 excepting the summer varieties. Attention to this will pre- 

 vent any disappointment. 



Bergen\s Striped Squash. — This is a variety of summer 

 squash, the seed of which we received from New York, for 

 the first time, last year. We planted several hills, but al- 

 though the season was so dry that the vines nearly perished, 

 yet what remained produced an abundant crop. The squash 

 is small, generally scollop shaped, yellow, with numerous 

 stripes of light and dark green. It promises to be a valuable 

 variety, and we would recommend it for trial. We believe it 

 originated in the vicinity of New York. 



Potatoes. — Since the introduction of the Rohan potato, 

 which has attracted so much attention, one or two other vari- 

 eties have been brought into notice. 



The Rohan has now been very extensively cultivated for 

 two years, a sufficient time to form some opinion of its merits, 

 but upon this point cultivators are greatly divided. Some, 

 after a trial of two years, have pronounced it one of the most 

 productive kinds ever raised; while others think they are not 

 equal to the long reds and some other sorts. From forty to 

 a hundred bushels have been raised from one bushel, and we be- 

 lieve a majority of those individuals who have given the Rohan 

 any thing like a fair trial, will pronounce them to be the most 

 productive of any potato ever raised in the country. Of their 

 qualities as an eating potato there are various opinions: some 

 good judges state that they fully equal the Chenango, and other 

 commonly cultivated kinds; while others allege their total un- 

 fitness for the table. This great difference of opinion must 

 undoubtedly arise from eating the potato when raised, in the 

 first instance, under the most favorable circumstances, of good 

 soil, proper manure, &c. — and in the other, when grown in a 



