SQUASH 199 



Kind to Choose. — There are several varieties of 

 pumpkin, but most of them are not properly garden 

 plants, as they are better fitted for stock feed than for 

 human beings. The small sugar pumpkins, however, 

 make good pies and are much esteemed in that form 

 by many. The Winter Luxury is a pumpkin of this 

 type that is well recommended. 



Planting. — It would hardly seem wise to give 

 much space in the small garden to the pumpkin, 

 but usually there are hills of sweet corn, here and 

 there, which do not get well started. A few pumpkin 

 seed, four or five, planted half an inch deep at such 

 places, will grow well and will not take up valuable 

 room. Leave the two best plants after they are well 

 started, and pull out the rest. 



Pumpkins have no enemies that trouble them 

 much, and are picked and stored in the same way 

 that squashes are handled. 



