New Yobk Agricultural Experiment Station. 265. 
flesh orange, thick, sweet, and when at its best, dry and well flavored, 
but often coarse and stringy; stem slender, tapering, much swollen at 
its union with the fruit, very deep green; — plant moderately vigorous; 
leaves very deep green, rather small, entire; petioles rather slender, 
tapering, obscurely channeled, the furrows often deeper green; vine 
more slender than the petioles, deep bluish green, with numerous 
white hairs. 
A winter squash of good average quality, and an excellent keeper. 
It is said that in a few instances the fruit has kept into the second 
year after growing. 
Correctly figured in Les pi. pot., p. 179; Veg. Gar., p. 260. 
No. 49. CASHAW PUMPKIN, Thor., '87. 
Fruit very thick club-shaped, sometimes inclined to curve, with a 
slight basin about the blossom end; obscurely ribbed; skin rather hard, 
dull pale yellow, finely mottled with a still paler tint; well developed 
samples 12 in. long, 7 in. in greatest diameter; — flesh pale yellow, solid 
except in the more swollen part near the blossom end; — plant mode- 
rately vigorous; leaves rather pale, dull green, with numerous whitish 
spots, large, obscurely 5-angled, surface smooth, considerably dishing, 
margin finely and distinctly serrate; petioles scarcely channeled, but 
striped with two shades of green, the older ones rather less hairy than 
the vine, which is nearly or quite round, pale green, striped in places 
with deeper green, densely covered with short white hairs. 
Another Cashaw Pumpkin, Land., '85, '87, bore fruit much the form of 
the Winter Crookneck squash, but larger in size, with numerous 
narrow, but not prominent ribs; skin rather soft, light cream color 
when ripe, pale green, with a whitish bloom when immature ; — flesh 
salmon colored. The characters of the plant very closely resembled 
those of the above, with the exception that the vine was more vig- 
orous. This is evidently the one described by Burr, who also men- 
tions a third variety of which the fruit " is nearly round." 
Both of the Cashaw pumpkins grown at the Station were very late, 
and would probably mature only in the most favorable seasons. 
No. 50. WINTER CROOKNECK, Burr. 
Syn. Cuckaw, Burr: Large Winter Crookneck, Greg., '87. 
Fruit rather thick club-shaped, the neck usually curved, green or 
cream color when mature, though the color often changes after har- 
vesting. "If green when plucked, it gradually becomes paler, or if 
yellow, it becomes a reddish cream color." Burr, Well developed 
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