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D. M. FERRY & CO'S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



BOSTON MARROW — A fall and winter variety, very 

 popular in the Boston market. Of oval form; skin thin; 

 when ripe, bright orange mottled with light cream color; 

 flesh rich salmon yellow, very dry, fine grained, and for 

 sweetness and excellence unsurpassed, but not as dry as the 

 Hubbard. We have an unusually good stock of this sort. 



Boston Marbow. 



HUBBARD.— This is a superior variety, and the best 

 winter squash known; flesh bright orange yellow, fine 

 grained, very dry, sweet and rich flavored; keeps perfectly 

 good throughout the winter; boils or bakes exceedingly dry 

 and is esteemed by many to be as good baked as the sweet 

 potato. We have taken the utmost pains with this sort and 

 can recommend our stock as in all probability the best in the 

 country, and think our customers can plant it in perfect 

 confidence that every fruit will be a pure Hubbard. 



Hubbard. 



BTJTMAN.— This is a cross between the Yokohama and 

 Hubbard. The flesh is between a salmon and a lemon color. 

 It has all the qualities of a first class squash, being very dry, 

 fine grained, and of excellent flavor. Size medium; color 

 light stone, distinctly striped and splashed with yellowish- 

 white. 



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1BLEH EAD. 



MARBLEHEAD.-This is unquestionably an excellent 

 keeper, and is finer grained and drier than any sort we have 

 seen. About the size of the Hubbard, with shell of bluish- 

 green, and bright orange flesh. Requires the whole season 

 to mature. 



WINTER CROOKNECK The most certain of any to 



produce a crop, its strong growing vines suffering less from 



insects than those of the other sorts. Color varying from 

 dark green to clear yellow, frequently changing to the latter 



Winter Crookneck. 



after being gathered. Flesh variable, affected by soil and 

 weather, sometimes close grained and fine flavored, and in 

 other cases coarse and stringy. If kept from cold and damp, 

 they will keep the entire year. 



SUGHR OKNE. 



EARLY AMBEB.- This comparatively new variety is 



now being successfully grown in our extreme northern 

 latitudes. It may be planted as late as the 15th of June, and 

 will be ripe enough to manufacture in September. It is the 

 earliest variety with which we are acquainted. The beauti- 

 ful, amber colored syrup it produces is thought to be 

 superior in flavor to any other, and for sugar it is unsur- 



Eably Amber. 



passed. There are^many varieties that can be profitably 

 grown where the seasons are long, but this can be grown 

 wherever Indian corn will grow. It is useless to plant cane 

 seed before the weather is warm in spring. Three or four 

 pounds are required per acre. 



