THE HUBBARD SQUASH. 
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THE] HUBBARD SQUASH. 
BY DR. CHARLES JEWETT, OF BOSTON. 
Doctor Hoyt, 
Secretary Wisconsin State Agricultural Society: 
Dear Sir: —In answer to your request for a statement of 
my experience with that best member of the squash family, 
familiarly known in the east as the “ Hubbard Squash,” I send 
the following brief description, with the hope that some of your 
Wisconsin people who have but little knowledge of it, may be 
induced to test its relative value. The small 
which accompany this communication, I know to be of the 
pure variety. 
package of seeds 
It has a rind, or shell, when thoroughly ripened, almost as 
hard as that of a gourd, and may be kept without injury 
through the entire winter. Of the produce of my own garden 
