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. 
e@ TABLE QUEEN 
(Summer and Winter Squash) 
(Days to Maturity, 80) 
Uses: For home and market gardens. Very 
popular for home use. 
Fruit: About the size of a coconut, pointed, 
deeply ridged. 
Fiesu: Rich orange, quality good. 
Squash, Cocozelle 
e@ COCOZELLE 
(Italian Vegetable Marrow) 
(Days to Maturity, 60) 
Usres: Home and market gardens. 
Fruit: 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 
at edible stage. 
Fresu: Greenish white. 
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@ GOLDEN SUMMER CROOKNECK 
(Early Summer Crookneck) 
Usss: 
Fruit: 
FLESH: 
Usss: 
Fruit: 
(Days to Maturity, 52) 
Most widely used Summer Squash. 
Particularly good for home, market 
gardens and freezing. Bush-type vine; 
fruit to be used when immature. 
About 10 inches long and 314 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. 
Yellow and thick. 
Squash, White Bush 
e EARLY WHITE BUSH 
(Patty Pan) 
(Days to Maturity, 52) 
Home and market gardens. Also used 
for shipping. 
3 inches deep and 8 inches in diameter, 
round with scalloped edges, flattened. 
Weighs 21% pounds. 
FLesH: White and thick. 
e HUBBARD, CHICAGO WARTED 
UsEs: 
Fruit: 
FLEsuH: 
(Days to Maturity, 110) 
The leading Winter Squash. Partic- 
ularly desirable for market use. Adapted 
to freezing. 
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. 
Orange-yellow, very thick and dry. 
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