


Squash 
CULTURE: Plant as soon as the ground is warm, 
8 to 10 seeds in a hill, with hills 4 to 6 feet apart. 
Later thin out, leaving 3 strongest plants in each 
hill. One ounce will plant 25 hills; 3 to 4 pounds 
per acre. 
@ TABLE QUEEN 
(Summer and Winter Squash) 
(Days to Maturity, 80) 

Uses: For home and market gardens. Very 
popular for home use. 
Spinach, Fruit: About the size of a coconut, pointed, 
Bloomsdale deeply ridged. 
Long Standing FiesH: Rich orange, quality good. 
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SPINACH, continued 
@BLOOMSDALE LONG STANDING 
(Round Seeded) 
(Days to Maturity, 45) 
Uses: Home and market gardens. Especially 
adapted for late spring or summer crop. 
Excellent for freezing. 
PLANT: Vigorous grower, compact and erect. 
Leaves: Medium large, crumpled, rounded tip, 
thick, deep glossy green. 
@ VIRGINIA SAVOY 
(Bloomsdale Blight Resistant) 
(Round Seeded) 
(Days to Maturity, 35) 
Uses: Developed by the Virginia Truck 
Experiment Station for blight resis- 
tance. Valuable for fall planting when 
blight is severe. It is the fastest-grow- 
ing curled type and matures a crop in 
the fall where other varieties fail. 
Resembles Bloomsdale Savoy, but in 
spring bolts to seed quickly and must 
be harvested when first ready. Adapted 
to freezing. 

Squash, Cocozelle 
@ COCOZELLE 
(Italian Vegetable Marrow) 
(Days to Maturity, 60) 
Uses: Home and market gardens. 
Fruir: Approximately 16 inches long and 4 
inches in diameter, dark green when 
immature but changes to alternate 
stripes of dark green and yellow at 
maturity, cylindrical and straight, with 
smooth surface. Weighs about 4 pounds 
ETE | =e at edible stage. 
Spinach, Virginia Savoy FLEsH: Greenish white. 

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