SQUASH—Summer Varieties—Continued 
60 days 
Fruit—20 inches long x 4% inches through 
at widest diameter with curved neck. 
Skin is heavily warted and rich orange- 
yellow color. 
Flesh—golden-yellow, thick, tender and 
of pleasing flavor. 
Plant—bush type. 
For home, market garden and shipping. 
It is a selection from Early Summer 
Crookneck that is later in season and 
larger in size. 
Giant Summer Crookneck 
Golden Summer Crookneck (Early) 
50 days 
Fruit—12 inches long x 3 inches in diame- 
ter, curved in shape with a small crooked 
neck. enlarged blossom end, thickly 
warted, golden-yellow in color. Very 
uniform. 
Flesh—bright yellow at edible stage, thick 
and noted for its fine quality and buttery 
flavor. 
Plant—bush type. 
A popular yellow bush type summer 
squash. Exceedingly prolific. A superb 
sort for home and market garden. 
Long White Vegetable Marrow 
60 days 
Fruit—12 inches long x 4 inches in diame- 
ter, oblong, somewhat larger at blossom 
end, faint ribbing on a smooth skin, skin 
pale cream-white. ; 
Flesh—pale green tinged with white, 
tender and very palatable. 
Plant—bush type. 
A favorite English variety, prolific, early 
and widely used. The fruit is generally 
eaten when less than half grown as the 
flesh then is tender and marrowy. 
Mammoth White Bush Scallop 
68 days 
Fruit—81% inches wide x 3% inches deep, 
disk shaped with scalloped edges, 
creamy-white in edible stage, becoming 
chalky-white at maturity. 
Flesh—green tinged with white, thick, 
tender, fine-grained, juicy and _ well 
flavored. 
Plant—bush type. 
This has become the most widely used of 
the early summer type Patty Pan squash, 
and it is especially popular in much of the 
South. Prolific, uniform and of good 
quali especially when fruits are very 
small. 
Winter Varieties 
Banana (Blue) 110 days 
Fruit—20 inches long x 5% inches in 
diameter, nearly cylindrical, convexly- 
tapering ends, smooth skinned, rind thin 
and medium hard, slate blue-green in 
* eolor. 
Fliesh—light orange-yellow, thick, firm, 
solid, dry, free from fiber or stringiness 
and of fair quality. 
Plant—vine, vigorous. 
A productive home and market garden 
winter squash with good keeping quali- 
ties. Especially popular on the West 
Coast. 


Blue Hubbard 
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Blue Hubbard 115 days 
Fruit—16 inches long x 10 inches in diame- 
ter, slightly rough and ridged, rind very 
hard and strong, blue green in color. 
Flesh—orange-yellow, thick, dry and fine 
grained, sweet. Retains its quality and 
is good keeper. 
Plant—vine. 
One of the best Hubbards for sweetness, 
flavor and keeping quality. Shape of 
fruit is similar to green Hubbard. 
Blue Hubbard, New England Strain 
110 days 
Fruit—20 to 30 inches long x 12 to 14 
inches at bulge, skin and rind similar to 
regular Blue Hubbard. 
Flesh—identical to Blue Hubbard. 
Plant—vine. 
A superior strain of Blue Hubbard devel- 
oped in the New England States with 
larger, longer fruits. Good keeper, 
excellent quality. 
Boston Marrow (Orange Marrow) 
97 days 
Fruit—14 inches long x 10 inches in 
diameter, Hubbard shape but with stem 
end more blunt, skin somewhat rough, 
rind quite hard and brittle, skin deep 
orange-buff. 
Flesh—orange tinged golden, thick, firm, 
fine grained, moist and sweetly flavored. 
Plant—vine, more vigorous than Golden 
Delicious. 
A very productive standard late fall 
variety, extensively used in the North 
for canning and freezing. 


