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Spinach Culture — All Varieties Except 
New Zealand 
One ounce of seed plants 100’ of row — 
8 to 12 Ibs. per acre. Sow seed 1%4"’ deep, 2’ to 
4" apart in 14”’ to 18’’ rows. The seedbed 
should be well drained, fertile, and finely 
prepared. Side-dress with nitrogen as needed 
during the growing season. 
New Zealand — Not a true spinach but of 
similar quality when cooked. Thrives in hot 
weather when other spinach bolts to seed. 
Plants are branched, often spreading 3 or 
4 feet, and grow to a higher of 1-2’. The 
leaves are thick, dark green and somewhat 
triangular in form. Only the tender branch tips 
should be used and frequent cuttings can be 
made all summer. No seed available in 1943. 
Spinach Culture — New Zealand 
Two ounces of seed plants 100’ of row — 
15 Ibs. per acre. Soak seed 48 hours before plant- 
ing to hasten germination. Sow from May 1 to 
June 1 for summer use, in hills, 3’ x 4’ apart, 
4 seeds per hill and 1’’ deep. Seedbed should be 
well drained and finely prepared. 
SQUASH 
SUMMER BUSH VARIETIES 
Early Prolific Straight Neck — This strain 
produces medium-sized plants bearing smooth- 
skinned fruits 10-12’ long, uniformly light 
orange yellow in color with no flecking. Seed 
cavity about 4”’ in diameter and the blossom 
end is rounded to a small scar. This strain sets 
heavily and produces over a long period. 
White Bush Scallop — A very early, flat- 
tened, scalloped summer squash, also known 
as Patty Pan. Fruits are creamy white, smooth 
with deep flesh of excellent texture and flavor. 
Vines are vigorous and very productive. 
Long Cocozelle — A second early summer 
variety with cylindrical smooth, straight 
fruits, dark green with lighter stripes, which 
change to deep yellow at maturity. Flesh is 
firm and greenish-white and the best quality 
of all varieties of this type. It is very prolific, 
picking over a long period. Fruit can be picked 
in various stages of growth from 6”’ to 20” in 
length; the larger ones require paring. 
Squash Culture — Summer Bush 
One ounce plants 50 hills — 3 to 4 lbs. per 
acre. Plant after danger of frost up to June 15, 
1’’ deep in hills 4’ x 4’, 6 seeds per hill. Thin to 
3 plants per hill. 
FALL AND WINTER 
(TRAILING VINES) 
Buttercup — A small-fruited variety belong- 
ing to the Hubbard group. Fruits are flattened, 
dark green, mottled with light green, have a 
medium-sized turban, adapted for fall and win- 
ter use. Flesh is free from stringiness, thick, 
deep yellow, dry and sweet. Its high quality 
makes it desirable for roadside markets and 
home gardens. 
Warren’s Essex Hybrid — Fruits weigh 
from 10-20 lbs. 8”’ to 12’’ from stem to blossom 
end and 12’’ to 16’’ in diameter. A flattened, 
cylindrical turban shape, with a distinct button 
on the blossom end. Skin is hard, warted and 
orange-red in color. The flesh is deep orange, 
thick, dry and sweet. For fall markets. 
Des Moines — Also known as Acorn and 
Table Queen. Fruits are dark green, pointed 
acorn shape, uniformly-ribbed, smooth, thin- 
shelled, 4’’ to 5’’ in diameter and 6’ long. 
Flesh is light yellow, smooth in texture and 
sweet. Especially delicious when baked in the 
half shell for individual servings. 
Golden Delicious — Top-shaped squash of 
rich orange color and a dark green blossom end. 
A fall and winter variety excellent for home 
use and canning. Flesh is thick, medium- 
grained, sweet and golden orange. The fruit is 
8’’ in diameter, 10’’ to 12’’ from stem to tip, 
weighing 7 to 8 lbs. 
Vermont Hubbard—A _ green Hubbard 
type with fruits 10’’ to 14”’ in diameter, 12’ 
Mh) Trim, attractive and plenty good to eat are the Eastern States Early Prolific 
Straight Neck squash in this market box. 

to 16”’ long, weighing 10 to 20 Ibs. Shell is very 
hard, flesh exceptionally thick, deep orange, 
dry, fine-grained, excellent flavor. Stores well. 
Blue Hubbard —The standard variety for 
winter storage. Fruits 20’’ long, 10’’ in di- 
ameter, weighing 15 to 30 lbs. with solid neck 
and blossom end. The shell is blue, hard, brit- 
tle, and medium-warted. Flesh is orange- 
yellow, thick, medium-dry and sweet. 
Golden Cushaw — An exceedingly high 
quality, productive squash, highly desirable 
for home gardens, roadside stands and many 
markets. The fruits are golden russet or light 
tan in color with long generally curved necks 
and a bulbous seed end. They average to weigh 
about 4’to 5 lbs. each. When mature the flesh is 
a rich orange color, dry and sweet with only a 
small seed cavity in the bulbous end. The neck 
is solid. When green the fruits can be used just 
as the summer bush varieties but with much 
more flavor. When fully matured and carefully 
handled and stored they can be kept all winter. 
Will not cross readily with pumpkins or other 
squashes. 
Culture — Fall and Winter Squashes 
One ounce of seed plants 20 hills — 4 lbs. 
per acre. Plant after danger of frost, 1’’ deep 
in 8’ by 8’ hills, 6 seeds per hill. Thin to 2 or 3 
plants per hill. Keep down weeds and control 
leaf-feeding insects and the stalk borer. 
TOMATO 
Pennheart—This is a new extra early 
variety of tomato of outstanding merit. It 
was developed by Dr. C. E. Myers of Penn- 
sylvania State College and upon test at Eastern 
States Trial Grounds at Feeding Hills, Massa- 
chusetts, during 1942 was outstandingly supe- 
rior to all other early varieties. It is a dwarf 
type, the plants developing to only about 
30’’ in diameter. It produces heavily over a 
short early period and holds its foliage well, 
giving considerable protection from sunscald. 
Fruits weigh from 5 to 7 oz. each, are deep 
ted, often with a green shoulder, smooth and 
a flattened globe in shape. The interior is solid, 
meaty and well-colored. 
This variety is intended to be useful only for 
producing a first early crop. Close planting — 
18" in 3’ rows — produces a heavy yield 
for the area occupied before the standard vine 
varieties come into production, and after the 
crop is harvested there is still time to produce 
some other quick growing crop on the same 
land. 
Bonny Best (Shirley) — Selected for earli- 
ness, vines somewhat susceptible to blight, 
medium size, fruit protection by foliage fair. 
Fruits are a flattened globe, 5-6 ozs., smooth, 
of deep red color, thick-walled, and mature 
rapidly. 
Stokesdale — A highly productive, red- 
fruited variety in the John Baer season (73 
days) and resistant to fusarium wilt. The vine 
is vigorous and leafy, but it fruits so heavily 
that some extra nitrogen must usually be sup- 
plied about the time the first fruits ripen to 
retain the foliage. The fruits are of medium 
size, 5 oz., globular, 5 to 6-celled and medium 
red. 
