SQUASHES AND PUMPKINS 



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otherwise denticulate, slightly frilled: surface moderately smooth, 

 occasionally somewhat crumpled; color dark green, often marked 

 with large gray blotches at the intersections of veins and vein- 

 lets; peticle moderately short and slender, 12 14 inches. Flower — 

 pistillate, large, 7 inches across, deep orange, ovary cylindrical, 

 green, finely speckled with pale yellow; sepals short and slender, 

 'j inch. — stsminate. medium large, 5 ' _>-o inches, pubescence dis- 

 tinctly long; sepals moderately short and moderately heavy, :i ( inch; 

 pedicle long, 10-12 inches. 



Fruit moderately small, 14-16 x 6-7 inches; weight 8-9 pounds. 

 Shape cylindrical, slightly depressed at the base and apex; ribbed 

 moderately narrow; furrows very shallow and obscure; surface 

 smooth, occasionally very slightly netted; blossom scar small, 

 '_,-' _i inch in diameter, depressed. Skin color dark orange (ochra- 

 ceous orange 1 in the form of a fine uniformly distributed lace-like 

 pattern over the entire surface, specked with a pale orange anti- 

 mony yellow under color which occurs within the mesh of the lace- 

 like pattern: occasionally sparsely covered with minute corky specks 

 or eruptions similar in nature to the netting of Winter Luxury; 

 however, no intertwining occurs. Fruit stalk medium long, 3 \ _— \ 

 inches, decidedly curved, ridged, woody and tough, very slightly 

 expanded at attachment. Shell moderately thin, A~ H ' ncn an< i 

 moderately hard. Flesh moderately thick, 1 1 4 -1 ' ■> inches, thickest 

 at the base and medial: texture medium coarse, tender, slightly 

 moist, slightly fibrous: rather insipid, quality fair; color pale orange 

 to orange pale orange yellow to cadmium yellow 1 . Seed cavity 

 large, conforms to fruit shape; placental tissue moderately abundant, 

 moist, slightly fibrous, easily removed. 



Seed medium size: medium long and broad, medium plump, 

 1.90 x 1.20 x .32 cm. 140 per oz. ; face smooth, dull white cartridge 

 buff ; margin wedge-like. 



Green Bush Scalloped. Ref. 24. 



As described by Burr in 1863, the fruit of this 

 bush squash was similar in size and form to the Yellow 

 and the White Bush Scallop. The skin color of the 

 fruit was given as bottle green, marbled or clouded 

 with shades of lighter green. This probably differed 

 little from the strain introduced later as Flat Green 

 by the D. Landreth Co. 



Green Striped Bergen. Refs. 14, 19, 24, 34, 50, 78, 



101, 130, 136, 137. Syns. Bergen, Green Striped 



Bush, Marrow Striped Cluster, Striped Custard 



Marrow. 



This early bush pepo was described by Burr in 



1863 and is therefore one of the earliest of the type 



known today as individual fall squash. It was listed 



until the late eighties by the leading seedsmen. While 



the description below comes from notes taken at Geneva 



in 1885 other published records show the shape to be 



quite variable from bell-shaped to quite flat, the color, 



however, remaining dark green and white striped. 



Plant bush: central stem dark green, thick, about 2 feet long; 

 branches moderately many, spread 4-5 feet, very vigorous. Leaves 

 very large, five-lobed, rounded at the ends, pale green; petioles long 

 and moderately slender. 



Fruit very small, 5-6 x 4-5 incnes: inversely bell-shaped; 

 often ovate, depressed at the base; ribs numerous, most distinct at 

 the base; skin color creamy white, spotted and blotched with pale 

 and dark green; furrows very dark green. Fruit stalk slender, very 

 dark green, curved, sparsely furrowed, spiny. 



Green Summer Crookneek. Refs. 14, 50, 74, 75, 

 95, 115, 130. Syns. Long Green Crookneek, Long 

 Green Summer Crookneek. 

 This crookneek which was popular from 1885 to the 



late nineties is seldom cultivated today. Illustrations 



and descriptions are found in early catalogs particularly 

 those of Johnson 8b Stokes for 1892 and D. Landreth 

 Seed Co. for 1885. The Green Crookneek squashes 

 were grown by gardeners in the Philadelphia section 

 but seem to have been little known elsewhere. Although 

 catalog listings occur as early as 1859 it was not described 

 by Burr. 



This differed from regular Crookneek in color of 

 skin, and possibly was a trifle larger. 



Plant trailing; vines very dark green at base, vigorous; leaves 

 large, shallowly five-lobed, deep green; petioles pale green. 



Fruit small, 12-14 x 3-3 >_• inches, greatest diameter at the 

 apex; club-shaped, more or less crooked near the base; surface warted 

 and corrugated, skin color very dark green, often irregularly and 

 narrowly striped with pale or yellowish green. Mature fruits have 

 a shell hard and tough and flesh moderately dry, sweet, well flavored 

 and pale yellow in color. 



Illinois Beauty. Refs. 77, 88, 117. 



This was a strikingly colored autumn variety cata- 

 loged in 1890 by James J. H. Gregory fit Sons, Marble- 

 head, Mass. These early fall squashes lost favor with 

 the introduction of improved maximas and it has been 

 only within recent years, subsequent to the introduction 

 of Table Queen, that the type has again found a market. 



The variety is most like Delicata and Black Michigan 

 in shape, although usually somewhat more tapered at 

 the base. The distinct skin color pattern serves to 

 separate it from others in the group. 



Plant semi-trailing, vigorous grower. Fruit very small, 

 8-10 x 3-4 inches. Shape nearly cylindrical, slightly tapering at 

 the base; ribs moderately broad, prominent; furrows moderately 

 deep; surface moderately smooth. Skin color at the ends is dark 

 green and in the center is a broad, definite band of orange yellow. 

 Flesh thick, firm, fine texture, dry, sweet, yellow, quality good. 

 Seed cavity very small. 



Italian Bapid Bush 



D. V. Burrell Seed Growers Co., Rocky Ford, 

 Colorado, introduced this new strain in 1933. It is a 

 prolific strain of Cocozelle producing fruits which are 

 more slender, have more definite and regular color 

 stripes of greater contrasting green shades, and which 

 in the mature stage has more yellow to replace the 

 green. 



Italian Vegetable Marrow. Refs. 14, 24, 26, 27, 33, 



45, 48, 50, 64, 86, 101, 130, 137. Syns. Asparagus 



Squash, " Cocozelle," Egg Plant Squash, Italian 



Green Striped. 



This name, which in recent years has come to be 



associated with a definite group of varieites, is also one 



of the oldest specific names. Burr in 1863 listed and 



described it, but apparently little notice was taken of 



the variety until sometime in the eighties. It was 



grown at the Geneva Station as Italian Green Striped, 



and this name with an illustration similar to that which 



appeared in Vilmorin was used in the 1890 catalog of 



James J. H. Gregory of Marblehead, Massachusetts. 



Thorburn published this illustration in 1895 but the 



variety was named as Italian Vegetable Marrow. 



The name Cocozelle appeared in the 1892 catalog 

 of Frank Ford 8s Son, Ravenna, Ohio, and also in that 



