PUMPKINS AND SQUASHES 



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fore, which are better adapted to a gross comparative study of 

 forms, sizes and other characters. Persons are always asking how 

 to tell a pumpkin from a squash. There is no well-defined usage 

 of the words, but there are three types of fruits to which the 

 names may be variously applied. These are well distinguished by 

 means of foliage or other characters, but the most obvious differ- 

 ences to the inexperienced lie in the peduncles or fruit-stems. 

 The fruits with cylindrical, spongy stems, which do not enlarge at 

 the junction with the fruit, are squashes (Fig. 305). The Hub- 

 bard, turbans, Boston Marrow and Essex are of this type; also 

 the mammoth fruits known as Chili pumpkins. Fig. 306 shows the 

 hard angled stem of the pumpkin, as this term is understood in 

 America. It includes the common field or pie pumpkin, and also 



Pio. 307. 

 Stem of Large Cheese pumpkin. 



the summer erookneck and patty-pan squashes. The types in Figs. 

 305 and 306 do not inter-cross. Fig. 307 shows another type of 

 pumpkin, in which the angled stem enlarges as it joins the fruit. 

 The so-called Japanese pumpkins, Cushaw pumpkins or squashes, 

 and the winter or Canada erookneck, belong here. 



