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SALSIFY or OYSTER PLANT 
Grows like a parsnip. Good in soup. Needs deep soil. Plant in early spring, ready 
to use in November. 
Mammoth Sandwich Island—6 to 8 inches long, 1% inches thick. Long tapered white 
roots. A standard for home and market gardens. 
SQUASH 
Plant when danger of frost is past in hills 4 to 6 feet apart. One ounce of seed plants 
40 hills. 
Early White Bush Scallop (53 days)—-Also known as patty pan. Plants bush type. 
Fruits greenish white turning to white when matured, flattened and smooth with 
scalloped edges. 
Golden Summer Crookneck (50 days)—Productive, bush type plant. Fruits about a 
foot long, bright yellow and warted. 
Early Yellow Bush Scallop (58 days)—-Very similar to Early White Bush in size and 
shape but yellow in color. 
Giant Summer Straightneck (55 days)—-One of the best for shipping, since straight 
neck packs well without breaking. Fruits are large and heavier than crookneck. Skin 
warted and yellow. A very good seller. 
Fordhook (62 days)—A trailing sort for fall and winter use. Skin ridged, smooth, 
cream colored. Flesh thick, dry and sweet. 
Italian or Zucchini (60 days)—Increasing popularity, weighs % lb., nearly cylindrical 
and straight. Green mottled with creamy-grey. Bush type plant. 
Banana (105 days)—-A winter trailing sort. About 2 ft. long, 6 inches in diameter 
with pointed end. A grey-green color with irregular stripes. Solid, dry, yellow, 
fine grained, sweet flesh. Excellent for pies or baking. 
Hubbard (100 days)—-A standard winter squash. Fruits 9 to 10 inches through, glob- 
ular, dark bronze green, very hard warted shell. Thick, yellow, fine grained, flesh 
of excellent quality. 
SPINACH 
Sow in February and March and again in October for early spring use. Will not 
do well in hot weather. One ounce to 50 feet, 10 to 15 lbs. per acre broadcast. 
Viroflay (45 days)—The long, broad, pointed, thick, smooth leaves make this spinach 
generally preferred when conditions will allow it to be planted. Blights and bolts 
to seed readily in warm weather. Easy to wash and a good spinach to can. 
Giant Nobel (44 days)—Considered by many to be the best of the thick, smooth 
leaved sort. Large vigorous plant that is an enormous yielder. Slow to form seed, 
A good canner. . 
Bloomsdale (42 days)—Will stand well without bolting to seed, therefore used exten- 
sively for spring planting. Leaves intensely crumpled and blistered, dark green. 
Virginia Blight Resistant (39 days)—Used principally in sections where blight occurs. 
Somewhat smoother than Bloomsdale, inclined to bolt to seed earlier. 
Old Dominion (40-42 days)—-A cross between Virginia Savoy and King of Denmark 
and possesses the blight resistance of Virgina Savoy and the late seeding character- 
istics of the King of Denmark. Dark green and crumpled leaves except at the tip. 
New Zealand (70 days)—Distinctly removed from true spinach. Plants tall and 
spreading with numerous shoots. Leaves rather small and pointed. Grows well in 
hot weather and under adverse conditions. 
