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Keport of the Horticulturist of the 
for table use to most summer squashes. The plant is very j)roductive, 
but is more subject to injury from the squash vine borer than many 
others. The fruit, however, is said to be less injured by frost than the 
Boston Marrow or American Turban. 
The origin of the Hubbard is not known. According to Mr. Gregory, 
it was brought into Marblehead, Mass., about the year 1807, by a 
marketman named Green, who resided near Boston. It may have 
come from the West Indies. 
The illustration given in " Squashes, and How to Grow Them," Greg., 
p. 44, is more nearly correct as to form than the one in Les pi. pot., 
p. 175; Veg. Gar., p. 256; but the latter shows the outer markings 
rather better. 
No. 17. IMPKOVED MAMMOTH PUMPKIN, Thor., '87. 
This seemed allied to the Mammoth Squash. Fruit roundish or 
slightly oblong, often rather irregular, distinctly depressed about the 
stem, inclining to pointed at the blossom end; ribs rather distinct in 
some samples, almost invisible in others; skin moderately hard, 
mottled with salmon and rather pale yellow, with stripes of dirty 
white following the furrows from the blossom end about half way to 
the stem, which is very short and thick, and constricted at its union 
with the fruit; well developed samples 16 in. in diameter, 20 in. 
through the axis; — flesh yellow, thin for the size of the fruit, fine- 
grained and sweet. 
The vine and foliage are scarcely different from those of the Mam- 
moth Squash. 
Excellent for pies, but rather less rich than the Etampes Pumpkin. 
No. 18. LONG WHITE ITALIAN MUSHROOM, Dam., '86. 
Fruit very large, oval with rather distinct ribs; white, sometimes 
inclining to pink, very smooth, but not glossy; well developed samples 
18 in. long by 10 in. in diameter; stem short; — plant very vigorous; 
leaves rather pale green, slightly grayish, entire, usually bluntly 
pointed at apex, border plain; petioles often thicker than the vine, 
channeled, with numerous short, white hairs; vine slender, pale 
.greeia, nearly round, rather densely clothed with white hairs. 
No. 19. MARBLEHEAD, Greg., '86; Hen., '85; Maule, '86; Sib., '83. 
Sym New Marblehead, Thor., '85, '87. 
Fruit oval, inclining to pointed at both ends; ribs very obscure; 
skin very dull light blue, extremely hard at maturity; well developed 
