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inches long, one to one and a half in diameter; coral- 
red when ripe; intensely pungent. 
Tabasco. Tall habit; three to four feet in height; 
bears in profusion slender fruit one inch in length; 
deep scarlet when ripe; intensely pungent. 
PUMPKIN. 
Canada.—Oblate form, deeply and regularly ribbed; 
comparatively large size, twelve to fourteen inches in 
diameter, about ten in depth; shell or rind thick and 
hard ; deep orange-yellow in color; flesh yellow, fine- 
grained; more flattened in form than the Common Field 
variety. 
Cashaw. Curved, crookneck form, solid and cylin- 
drical, thickened more or less at the blossom end; large 
size, reaching fifty pounds or more in weight; color of 
rind light-cream; flesh yellow, fine-grained, sweet. 
Cheese. Fruit much flattened, cheese-shaped, regu- 
larly ribbed; large size, fourteen to sixteen inches in 
diameter, eight to ten in depth; rind quite hard, deep 
reddish-orange in color; flesh thick, yellow, fine-grained, 
sweet. 
Connecticut Field. Fruit rounded, more deep than 
broad, flattened at ends, regularly and prominently 
ribbed; twelve to fifteen inches long, ten to twelve in 
diameter; rind hard, color orange-yellow, flesh yellow, 
coarse-grained. 
Japanese or Japanese Pie. Early, medium-sized, 
crooknecked ; rind dark-green, mottled with yellow 
stripes; flesh deep orange; fine-grained, sweet. 
Mammoth Potiron, or Jumbo, King of the Mam- 
moth. Rounded, thickened form, depressed at ends, 
slightly ribbed; rind salmon-orange; flesh deep yellow. 
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