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GARDENING FOR THE SOUTH. 



times the food that is produced by this most profitable 

 grain. 



A good baked sweet potato is almost as nutritive as 

 bread. They are better baked than boiled. They are also 

 used for pies and puddings, and sweet potato rolls are ex- 

 cellent. In short, the modes of cooking this valuable 

 vegetable are innumerable, but perhaps the very best is 

 Marion's mode of roasting in the hot ashes. 



PUMPKIN — [Cucurbita Pepo.) 



A trailing annual, from India and the Levant, with 

 globular or cylindrical fruit. It has become so crossed 

 that it is difficult to say of some varieties to which species 

 they should be referred. 



The best variety for family use is the Cashaw, a long, 

 cylindrical, curved variety, swollen at one extremity, of 

 fine, creamy yellow color, very solid and excellent to use 

 as a winter squash, and quite as valuable as any for the 

 other purposes. Pumpkins are not as particular, about 

 soil as melons and cucumbers, but will grow well on any 

 tolerably rich ground. It is not best to grow them in the 

 garden, as they will mix and corrupt the seed of the other 

 varieties. They like a soil freshly reclaimed from the 

 woods; the field is the proper place for their cultivation. 

 Plant when the main crop of corn is put in ; let the hills 

 be ten feet apart. Hoe frequently and keep clean. Let 

 only one plant remain in each hill. Do not earth up the 

 plants, but keep the soil about them light and loose with 

 the hoe, until the vines prevent further culture. 



Use. — In France, as well as in New England, the pump- 

 kin is much used for stews and soups. The best, such as 



