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SQUASH — (Continued) Summer Varieties 
Italian Vegetable Marrow (Cocozella di Napoli) 
Vines of bush habit, producing large, much elongated fruits, dark green at 
first but as they mature becoming marbled with yellow and lighter green in 
stripes. Fruits in best condition for the table when six to eight inches long, 
but can be used when much larger. The young and tender fruits when sliced 
and fried in oil constitute a vegetable delicacy very popular, especially in 
Naples. If fruits are picked when small, may be cooked in bunches like 
Asparagus and plants will blossom and produce for a considerable time if 
fruits are picked often. 
Mammoth Summer Crookneck ; 
A home, market garden and shipping squash. Fruits 18 to 24 inches long, 444 
inches through; skin rich orange-yellow, warted. 
Mammoth White Bush Scallop 
Also called Patty Pan or Cymbling. The fruits are large and a beautiful clear 
waxy white; flesh milk white, firm, smooth and richly flavored. The hand- 
somest of the scalloped squashes and the most popular of all white summer 
squashes for home garden use. 
YANKEE HYBRID 
A true first generation hybrid made by controlled crossing of inbreds of 
Connecticut Straightneck and Early Prolific. It is earlier, more productive 
and more uniform than either parent. Fruits medium yellow, straight and 
very slightly warted. Vine is bush type. 5 days earlier than Early Prolific and 
at least 10 days earlier than Giant Straightneck. 
SQUASH—Winter Varieties 
A packet will plant 6 to 8 hills, an ounce 25 hills, 3 to 4 lbs. per acre. 
BLUE HUBBARD—New England Strain 
Fruit large, blue-gray, long and pointed at both ends. A fine winter keeper 
and the popular type of Blue Hubbard for Boston market. Flesh thick, deep 
yellow, fine flavor and texture. 
BLUE HUBBARD 
An extra large type of Hubbard squash but having a light blue skin. Flesh 
re ueey hee very thick, of excellent flavor and cooks drier than the green 
ubbard. 
BUTTERNUT (See Photo Page 50) 
A new fine quality, early winter squash. Fruits yellowish-brown, bottle 
shaped, 10 to 12 inches long, 4 to 5 inches at largest diameter. The flesh is 
yellow, dry, sweet and of excellent flavor. Very small seed cavity. A prolific 
bearer and a good keeper. 
