DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



CUCURBITA MELOPEPO. 



Fr. Courge. — Ger. Kuerbis. 



The Squash is a tendei-, trailing annual, thought to be the connecting link 

 between the Melon and Pumpkin, and was first brought to England in 1597. It 

 is a much esteemed vegetable, and in some of its varieties, can be had for the 

 table the greater part of the year. Being very tender and sensitive of cold, it 

 cannot with safety be planted in the open ground before the middle of Spring. 

 The different varieties of Squash intermix so easily, that it is very difficult to 

 preserve each pure. The rage for mammoth Squashes has gone by ; they are 

 always coarse-grained and watery, only fit for stock feeding. Small and medi- 

 um sized Squashes are uniformly finer grained and richer flavored. 



SQUASH— Early Bush Scallop. SQUASH— Summer Crookneck. 



Early Bush Scallop. — An early, flat, scallop shaped variety ; color, yel- 

 low or white ; flesh, pale yellow, tolerably fine grained and well flavored ; very 

 productive ; used when young and tender for boiling, and at maturity, for mak- 

 ing pies. 



Summer Crookueck. — The richest and best sort for summer ; very early 

 and productive. It is small, crooked neck, covered with warty exc-resences, the 

 more the better ; color, bright yellow ; shell, very hard when ripe. It is used 

 only when young and tender, which may be known by the pressure of the thumb 

 nail through the skin. 



Marblehead.-We have grown this variety the past two seasons, and have thor- 

 oughly tested its 

 cooking quali- 

 ties, which we 

 unhesitatingly 

 pronounce un- 

 surpassed. With- 

 out detracting 

 from the merits ■ 

 of the well- 

 known Hubbard 

 and Boston 

 Marrow, we find 

 some character- 

 istics in this va- 



