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extremely hard, very deep glossy green, faintly mottled with paler 
green, the excrescences marbled with yellowish green; Avell devel- 
oped samples 8 in. in diameter, 7 in. through the axis; — "flesh 
comparatively thick, yellow, sweet, fine grained and of excellent 
flavor" (Burr); stem sometimes paler than the fruit, short, thick, 
slightly expanded at its union; — plant very vigorous, productive; 
leaves clear green, deeply 5-lobed, the terminal lobes somewhat cut, 
margin deeply toothed near, the petioles, which are pale green, 
scarcely channeled, Avith numerous stiff hairs; vine blackish green 
at the base and for a considerable distance. 
The fruit keeps well, and the skin changes to yellow or orange 
after being stored a long time. 
c. Fruits roundish or oblate. 
No. 32. COCOANUT, Greg., '80; Hen., '85 (not the Cocoanut of Burr). 
Syn. Little Cocoanut, Bice, '83; Thor., '82, '85, '87. 
Fruit small, nearly round, hollowed about the stem, ribs numerous, 
distinct; creamy white, shading to rich yellow or orange in the 
furrows, toward the blossom end the colors change abruptly to 
deep, often almost blackish green; — flesh fine-grained and of excel- 
lent quality; stem very slender, very deep green, scarcely tapering; — 
plant running, very vigorous, much branched at the base; leaves 
rather distinctly 3-lobed; petioles slender, of uniform color, with 
few hairs; vine deep bluish green, becoming pale green farther out, 
furrowed, nearly destitute of hairs. 
The plant is very productive; the fruit matures rather late, and 
keeps fairly well. 
Correctly figured in Gregory's catalogue of 1882 and succeeding 
years. 
No. 33. GENEVA BUSH, Vil., '85. 
CSyn. Geneva Bush Gourd, Veg. Gar. : Fr., Courgeron de Geneve, Vil., '85. 
Fruit distinctly oblate, sometimes much flattened, somewhat 
depressed about the stem and at the blossom end, the furrows 
obscure or invisible; deep green when immature, rich yellow or 
orange when ripe; well developed samples 6 in. in diameter, 4 in. 
through the axis; — flesh pale yellow, quite thin; stem pale green, 
tapering, hairy; — plant not running; leaves rather light green, three 
or five lobed; petioles pale green with deeper green stripes; vine 
about 2 ft. long, obscurely angular, deep green, rough, but scarcely 
spiny. 
