SQUASH 
Cultivation of Squash and Vegetable Marrow. — Never sow the seed in the spring until lasting warm weather is an absolute 
certainty. A warm, mellow, well-manured soil suits them best. The seed should be planted in hills about 4 feet apart 
each way for the bush varieties and marrows, and 10 to 12 feet apart each way for the running varieties. Plant 12 to 15 
seeds in each hill so as to offset the loss by insects and weakness. When all danger of such losses is past, thin to 3 or 4 plants 
to the hill. Winter sorts may be planted with corn, using four or five seeds in every fourth or fifth hill at the same time 
as the corn is planted. One ounce of seed will plant fifty hills of the early sorts and thirty hills of the later varieties, five 
to six pounds to the acre. 
EARLY BUSH VARIETIES 
Giant Summer Crookneck. — Without a doubt this is the most popular summer squash grown. The 
flesh is thick, yellow, and of splendid quality. 
Price, .10 per pkt.; .15 per oz.; .45 per 34 lb. 
Early Mammoth White Bush. — A superb sort for early use, and is considered the best scalloped squash 
produced. 
Price, .10 per pkt.; .15 per oz.; .45 per 34 lb. 
Golden Custard. — A fine, large, yellow squash, similar in shape to the Mammoth White Bush. 
Price, .10 per pkt.; .15 per oz.; .45 per 34 lb. 
RUNNING VARIETIES FOR AUTUMN AND WINTER CROPS 
Delicious. — A winter squash considered by squash raisers to be a very superior sort, even surpassing 
the Hubbard in its finished qualities. Its colour is an even shade of green, and the flesh is a deep 
orange; it ripens off with a compact grain, dry throughout, and with a very sweet, tasty flavour. 
Price, .10 per pkt.; .25 per oz.; .75 per 34 lb. 
Boston Marrow. — A fine reddish-yellow skinned autumn variety. The flesh is well flavoured, of a 
deep orange colour, and well grained, with fine keeping qualities. 
Price, .10 per pkt.; .15 per oz ; .50 per 34 lb. 
Essex Hybrid or Hard Shell Turban. — A result of the hybridizing of American Turban and Hubbard, 
combining all the excellent qualities of both these superior sorts. It has sweet flesh of a very fine 
grain and rich, tasty flavour. The skin and flesh are both of a richly coloured orange. Considered 
a fine keeper. 
Price, .10 per pkt.; .15 per oz.; .50 per 34 lb. 
Improved Hubbard. — This is the most popular and reliable old-time winter squash raised. The skin 
is coloured a dark green, with a fine-grained, dry, very rich bright orange flesh of a fine flavour. 
Averages in weight from 10 to 20 pounds and keeps well. The shell is very hard. 
Price, .10 per pkt.; .15 per oz.; .50 per 34 lb. 
Golden Hubbard. — - Very similar to the Improved Hubbard, except in colour, which is a reddish yellow. 
Price, .10 per pkt.; .15 per oz.; .50 per 34 lb. 
Mammoth Warted Hubbard. — A strong-growing vine, producing a great number of dark green warted 
squashes similar in every other way to the Improved Hubbard and very much larger. 
Price, .10 per pkt.; .15 per oz.; .50 per 34 lb. 
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