DESCRIPTION OF CUCURBITA 
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7. Burpee’s Big Tom Pumpkin. — Same as No. 1. 
8. Stake’s Small Sugar Pumpkin. — Stems 5-sided, ridged, 
pubescent. Leaf long, petiolate, 5-lobed, deeply cleft. The lobes 
divided again. White spots at angles of veins. Fruit ridged, 
brownish yellow with dark lines. Peduncle of fruit dark green, 
ridged. 
9. Stoke’s Pie Pumpkin. — Leaves are 3-lobed, not as deeply 
cleft as is No. 8. The lobes not , subdivided, or if so, only to a 
small extent. 
10. Ferry’s Sugar Pumpkin. — Stems 5-sided, ridged. Leaf 
5-lobed, deeply cleft, each lobe again divided. Leaves dark green 
color, mottled appearance, ridged. Peduncle of fruit deeply 
ridged. 
11. Burpee’s Small Sugar Pumpkin. — Stems 5-sided, ridged, 
leaves 5-lobed, each lobe again divided. Peduncle of fruit? ridged: 
Fruit deeply ridged, of a yellow color. 
DESCRIPTION OF TYPES AND VARIETIES OF C. MOSCHATA 
1. Thorburn’s Cushaw Mammoth Golden Pumpkin. — Stems 
almost round, somewhat 5-sided, pubescent, not spiny. Leaves 
with petioles, from 12 to 15 inches long, pubescent. Leaves al- 
most' round, somewhat lobed. Peduncle of fruit angular, deeply 
ridged, and swollen where it joins the fruit. Fruit of the crook- 
neck type, of a yellow color. 
2. Burpee’s Large Cheese Pumpkin. — Stems nearly round, no 
ridges, fine pubescent. Leaves almost kidney shaped, no cleft with 
white spots at intersections of veins. Peduncle of male and female 
flowers is 5-sided. 
3. Ferry’s Cheese Pumpkin. — Stem is- 5-sided to rounded, no 
ridges, covered with very fine hairs. Leaves almost kidney shaped, 
somewhat lobed, with white spots at intersection of veins. 
4. Stoke’s Sweet Cheese Pumpkin. — The stem is more or less 
rounded, not ridged, covered with fine hair. Leaves almost kid- 
ney shaped, lobed very little, if any. 
DESCRIPTION OF TYPES AND VARIETIES OF CUCURBITA 
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1. Burpee’s Gen. Mammoth Pumpkin. — The stems are round, 
not ridged, covered with fine hairs. The leaves are kidney shaped, 
not lobed, covered with fine hairs on the under side. 
2. Stoke’s King of Mammoth Pumpkins. — Stems almost 
round, pubescent, not spiny. Leaves not lobed, no white spot 
