1890.] History of Garden Vegetables. 733 
Naudin'" describes Le Turban Rouge, and Le Turban Nouveau du 
Bresil, the latter of recent introduction from South America. Its 
description accords with the Cucurbita clypeiformis tuberoso and 
verrucoso, seen by J. Bauhin '® in 1607. The Zapillito, from 
Brazil, advertised by Gregory in 1880, and said by Vilmorin to 
have reached France from South America about 1860, resembles 
the Turban squash in shape. This evidence, such as it is, points 
to South America as the starting point of this form. 
It belongs to Cucurbita maxima, Cogn., l.c. 
The squashes of our markets, par excellence, are the Marrows 
and the Hubbard, with other varieties of the succulent stemmed. 
These found representation in our seed catalogues in 1828,' in 
the variety called Com. Porter's Valparaiso, and which was 
brought from Chili shortly after the war of 1812. In the New 
England Farmer, Sept. 11., 1824, notice is made of a kind of 
melon squash or pumpkin, of moderate size, from Chili, a few seeds 
being received in Boston, and which is possibly the Valparaiso. 
The Hubbard squash is said by Gregory, its introducer in 1857, 
to be of unknown origin, but to resemble a kind which was 
brought by a sea captain from the West Indies. The Marblehead, 
also introduced by Mr. Gregory and distributed in 1867, is said 
directly to have come from the West Indies. The Autumnal 
Marrow or Ohio was introduced in 1832, and exhibited at the 
rooms of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 
This class is to be referred to Cucurbita maxima, Cogn., l.c., 
and does not appear in any of the figures or descriptions of the 
herbalists, so far as we can ascertain, except as hereinafter noted 
for Lobel. 
The Pumpkin. 
The word pumpkin is derived from the Greek pepon, Latin 
pepo. Inthe ancient Greek it was used by Galen as a com- 
pound to indicate ripe fruit, as swkwopepona, ripe cucumber, as 
also by Theophrestus peponas, and Hippocrates sikuon peponia."" 
107 Naudin. Ann. Des. Sc. Nat., 4th ser., VI., p. 20. 
108 J. Bauhin. Hist., 1651, II., 227. 
109 'Thorburn's ( 3 
n's Cat. 
10 See Bodzeus a Stapel. Theoph., 1644, 781. 
