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it ripens rather late. The Courge Pleine d Alger and the Courge 

 des Bedouins appear to be 

 identical with this kind. 

 In Italy a gigantic variety 

 is grown, the fruit of 

 which, usually slightly 

 curved, often measures 

 upwards of 3 ft. in length, 

 and weighs from 33 to 

 44 lb. 



Early Carpet-bag 

 Gourd, or Early Nea- 

 politan Squash. — This 

 variety resembles the pre- 

 ceding one in habit of 

 growth, and only differs 

 from it in the smaller size 

 of its fruit, and its much 

 greater earliness, which 

 renders it a very valuable 

 plant, and one to be re- 

 commended for the climate 

 of the north of France in 

 preference to the previous 

 variety. 



Mirepoix Musk Squash. — Stem strong and trailing, leaves 

 large, erect, with rounded lobes. Fruit pear-shaped, slightly ribbed, 

 dark green streaked v/ith light green. The flesh is dark red, firm, 



fragrant, and keeps well. A 

 variety raised in the south 

 of France, ripens well at 

 Paris, but not so well farther 

 north. 



Yokohama Gourd. — 



The only flat-fruited variety 

 of Ciicurbita vwschata that 

 v/e know of is the Yokohama 

 Gourd, a Japanese variety 

 that has often been intro- 

 duced into Europe. It is a 

 plant of very rampant habit 

 and somewhat late in ripen- 

 ing. Fruit flattened in shape, 

 especially on the portion sur- 

 rounding the eye, generally 

 twice as broad as long, sometimes even more so, of a very dark 



Mirepoix Musk Squash. 



Yokohama Gourd natural size) 



