254 
Eeport of the Horticulturist of the 
plant is not very productive, but the fruit keeps well, and is scarcely- 
excelled in quality. 
Correctly figured in VEG. GAR, p. 257. 
No. 22. VALPARAISO, Burr; Veg Gar.; Vil., '84. 
Syn. Commodore Porter, Burr : Porter's Valparaiso, Burr : Fr., Courge de 
Valparaiso, VIL., '84: Ger., Valparaiso grosser Kiirbiss, A. de CI. 
Fruit large, oval, scarcely ribbed, often terminating in a wart-like 
excrescence at the blossom end; surface usually more or less netted, 
creamy white, often with a tinge of gray; well developed samples 18 
in. long, 13 in. in diameter; — flesh rather thin, rich yellow or orange, 
generally of good quality; — plant vigorous; leaves large, toothed on 
the margin, pale green, often with a peculiar grayish metallic appear- 
ance; " seeds rather large, Nankeen yellow, smooth and glossy." Burr. 
The fruit keeps fairly well. 
Correctly figured in Les. pi. pot., p. 174; Veg Gar., p. 255. 
2. Fruit stem distinctly grooved longitudinally. 
A. Fruit stem little expanded at its union with 
the fruit : — Cucurbita Pepo. 
a. Fruits with conspicuous projections 
about the circumference. 
* Fruits strongly flattened, " pat- 
ty-pan " shaped. 
* 
No. 23. PATTYPAN, Greg.; Vil. 
Syn. Crown Gourd, Vil. : Custard G., Vil.: Custard Marrow G. (Am.), 
Veg. Gar. ; Vil. : Cymbling, Burr : Elector's Cap, Veg Gar. : Early Bush 
Scallop, WHITE : Early Scalloped Bush, BBILL : Scollop Gourd, Veg. Gar. ; 
Vil. : Fr., Arboufle d' Astrakhan, Vil. : Arbouste d' Astrakhan, Vil. : Arti- 
chaut d'Espagne, Vil. : A. de Jerusalem, Vil. : Bonnet d'Electeur, Vil. : B. 
de pretre, Vil. : Couronne imperiale, Vil. : Patissons, VIL. : Ger., Bischof- 
smutze, Vil. : Flam., Prinsenmuts, Vil. 
A very distinct and peculiar form of Cucurbita pepo, of which sev- 
eral varieties or sub-varieties are cultivated, which may in the main be 
described together. 
The form of the fruit is well suggested by the name; strongly flat- 
tened, the contour presenting five or ten rounded excrescences or teeth 
which incline either outward, forward, or back. The fruit is usually 
distinctly convex at the blossom end, and inclining to flat on the other* 
but sometimes the reverse is true, and at others both ends are convex; 
flesh rather thick, but not sweet nor very dry; skin very smooth, hard 
and tough ;it maturity; seeds small, broad in proportion to their 
