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LEONARD SEED COMPANY, CHICAGO 
Connecticut Field. 
Pumpkin 
LARGE CHEESE OR KENTUCKY FIELD. 
Used largely for canning and stock feeding. The 
fruits are flat, dull orange, flesh yellow, thick and 
tender. Matures in 120 days. Pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; 
34 lb., 25c. 
CONNECTICUT FIELD. The standard cornfield 
variety producing large, orange colored pumpkins 
averaging 25 lbs. in weight. Are round and flat on 
ends with smooth, hard rind. Flesh is thick, dry 
and sweet—excellent for canning and stock feed' 
ing. Matures in 120 days. Pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; 34 
lb., 25c. 
Mammoth Potiron or King of the Mammoth. 
The flesh and skin are of a bright golden yellow 
color. Flesh fine grained and of excellent quality. 
This enormous variety has been grown to weigh 
100 to 150 pounds. Matures in 120 days. Pkt., 
10c; oz., 15c; 34 lb., 50c. 
Green Striped Cushaw. Fruits very large with 
crooked neck. Color creamy white, irregularly 
striped or traced with green. Flesh light yellow, 
very thick, rather coarse but sweet. This sort is 
very productive and popular in some sections. 
Matures in 120 days. Pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; 34 lb., 30c. 
Tennessee Sweet Potato. 
Fruits are bell shaped of medium 
size with white skin, slightly 
mottled with light green stripes, 
fruits average 15 lbs. Flesh is 
creamy white, very thick, fine 
grained and sweet. Matures in 
110 days. Pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; 
34 lb., 35c. 
Culture. The finer varieties of pump¬ 
kins are used for pies and the coarser 
ones for stock feeding. While the pump¬ 
kin may be grown very much as cucum¬ 
bers are grown in a garden, they are more 
frequently planted in the field with corn, 
where several seeds are dropped in each 
fourth hill. Planted alone, six to ten 
seeds are covered one inch deep in hills 
eight to ten feet apart and thinned to two 
to four plants to the hill. One ounce 
plants twenty-five hills and two to four 
pounds of seed generously plants an acre. 
Pie Pumpkin. 
Cushaw or Crookneck. The 
skin is golden yellow, vines are 
very prolific, fruits rather small 
and slender. Matures in 100 days. 
Pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; 34 lb., 30c. 
Small Sugar or Pie. A rather 
small but handsome variety. 
Shape round, skin deep orange 
colored; flesh fine grained, sweet 
flavored, superior for pies. Ma¬ 
tures in 115 days. Pkt., 10c; oz., 
15c; 34 lb., 30c. 
Japanese Pie. Shaped some¬ 
what like the Cushaws and 
grows to a large size; skin deep 
green with dark stripes; flesh 
deep yellow and of high quality; 
seeds sculptured like Chinese let¬ 
ters. Matures in 115 days. Pkt., 
10c; oz., 15c; 34 lb., 30c. 
RHUBARB 
(Pie Plant) 
Victoria. Stalks large, rich red 
in color, very thick and tender. 
The best variety. Pkt., 10c; 
oz., 25c; 34 lb., 75c. 
Culture. Rhubarb succeeds best in 
deep soil. The richer its condition and 
the deeper it is stirred the better. Sow 
in drills an inch deep and thin out the 
plants to six inches apart. In the Fall 
transplant the young plants into very 
highly manured and deeply stirred soil, 
setting them 4 to 6 feet apart each 
way and give a dressing of coarse ma¬ 
nure every spring. The stalks should not 
be plucked until the second year and the 
plant never allowed to exhaust itself by 
running to seed. 
Large Cheese, or Kentucky Field. 
Connecticut Field Pump¬ 
kin yields large crops for 
canning and stock feeding. 
