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e GOLDEN SUMMER CROOKNECK 
(Early Summer Crookneck) 
(Days to Maturity, 52) 
Uses: Most widely used Summer Squash, 
Particularly good for home and market 
gardens. Bush-type vine; fruit to be used 
when immature. 
Fruit: About 10 inches long and 31% inches in 
diameter, small crooked neck with en- 
larged blossom end where seeds are 
borne, rich yellow in color and thickly 
covered with warts. Weighs about 2 
pounds. 
Fuiesu: Yellow and thick. 

Squash, White Bush 
e EARLY WHITE BUSH 
(Patty Pan) 
(Days to Maturity, 52) 
Uses: Home and market gardens. Also used 
for shipping. 
Fruit: 3 inches deep and 8 inches in diameter, 
round with scalloped edges, flattened. 
Weighs 214 pounds. 
FiLesu: White and thick. 
© HUBBARD, CHICAGO WARTED 
(Days to Maturity, 110) 
Uses: The leading Winter Squash. Partic- 
ularly desirable for market use. Adapted 
to freezing. 
Fruit: 14 inches long and 10 inches in diameter, 
globular in shape and pointed at both 
ends, heavily warted and bronze-green 
at maturity. Weighs about 15 pounds. 
FLesu: Orange-yellow, very thick and dry. 
Richmond, Virginia 

Squash, Golden Summer Crookneck 
@ BENNING’S GREEN-TINTED 
WHITE BUSH 
(Days to Maturity, 52-65) 
Uses: Market gardens. Similar to Early White 
Bush. 
Fruit: The skin turns pale brown when fruit is 
fully matured. 
Swiss Chard 
CULTURE: Sow in spring as soon as ground can 
be worked, in drills 18 to 24 inches apart, covering 
the seed with about 1 inch of soil. Later thin plants 
to about 4 to 5 inches apart in the row. One ounce 
of seed will plant 100 feet of drill; 6 to 8 pounds 
per acre. 
e LUCULLUS 
(Days to Maturity, 55) 
Uses: Widely used for home gardens, also very 
satisfactory for market use. Excellent for 
freezing. 
Stems: Light green in color, broad and thick; 
leaves light green, fleshy, crumpled. 

Swiss Chard, Lucullus 
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