PUMPKINS 



333 



clear green, large, toothed 

 at the edges, and more or 

 less divided into three or 

 five rather pointed lobes ; 

 fruit of a very bright orange 

 colour, elongated, covered 

 with numerous roundish 

 excrescences, narrowed and 

 most usually curved in the 

 part next the stalk, and 

 swollen at the other end, 

 which, however, always ter- 

 minates in a point. This 

 variety is less grown for 

 the table than for ornament, 

 like the Fancy Gourds. 

 From the hardness of its 



Bush, or Crook-neck, Squash natural size). 



skin, the fruit is easily kept all through the winter, and never 

 loses the fine orange colour which is peculiar to it. 



Large Tours Pump- 

 kin. — Stems creeping, i6 

 to 20 ft. long ; leaves very 

 large, dark green in colour 

 with a few gray blotches, 

 sometimes entire, but most 

 usually divided into three 

 or five lobes ; fruit round 

 or long, generally flattened 

 at both ends, with faintly 

 marked ribs, and a smooth 

 skin of a pale or gray-green 

 colour marked with deeper 

 bands and marbHngs. The 

 fruit often weighs from go 

 to no lb. Its flesh is 

 yellow, not very thick, and 

 of middling quality. The 

 seed is very large. Its 

 germinating power lasts 

 for only four or five years. 

 This variety is generally 

 grown for feeding cattle 

 only. 



Custard Marrow. — 



The Custard Marrows are 



Large Tours Pumpkin, SOme of the most CUrioUS 



