WINTER SQUASH 
Cultural Directions are on the preceding page. 
Blue Hubbard. most Popular on the Market. Here is a Hubbard Squash of gray - 
blue color whose meat is thicker, of better quality, and keeps longer than the origina! 
Hubbard. It will pay you to try it in your garden. PkousliOc Rozsa Gia zal billie 
Buttercup. Productive—High Quality. No doubt one of the highest quality, 
most deliciously flavored winter Squashes. Medium small, averaging 3 to 5 pounds. 
Dark green with prominent “button.” Flesh yellow, exceptionally thick, dry, sweet and 
never stringy. Don’t fail to try this new Squash. It’s a great favorite whenever tests 
are made for quality. Pkgt lbe bsoz. 25c;0z. 45c7 14 Ib. 951-35 
Butternut. A splendid new winter Squash, whose medium size fruits ore of a 
yellowish brown color and bottle-shaped. Outer shell is smooth and hard. Flesh is 
clear yellow, fine textured, dry, sweet, and of very excellent flavor. An unusually 
large proportion of this Squash is edible as the seed cavity is so small. Gardeners tell 
us that the vines are very seldom bothered by the Squash borer. 
Pkg. 15c; 4 oz. 30c; oz. 50c; 4 Ib. $1.65 
Delicious. The meat is so dry and fine grained that it greatly resembles that of a 
ood Sweet Potato. Delius soe: not prow as Oe oy A panes Dania te opbatce RE 
rom 5 to 10 Ibs., but is ve eavy, as the orange color esh is so thic a ere . - fs 
is but very little seed Cewity in he center. A splendid winter keeper and one you Buttercup is a long-keeping Squash of top quality 
should grow in the garden. PkquslOc oz. so G7 Anil beesileles) 
Golden Delicious. The fruit is of medium size, weighing from 5 to 10 pounds, 
skin orange-yellow; the flesh thick, fine grained, dry, and of fairly good quality 
Plant is strong growing and a most prolific bearer. Pkg: 10c¢s"0z; 35¢7 1/4 Ibs Sl15 
Golden or Red Hubbard. Medium size, weighing 
from 6 to 8 pounds; in shape like the Hubbard. Long Hubbard. Very pro- 
keepers and can be held in good condition for spring use. ductive. The fruits are 
The flesh is deep orange-red, dry, fine grained and richly large, heavy and moder- 
flavored. Pkg. 10c; oz. 35c; 4 Ib. $1.15 ately warted, with a very 
hard shell; skin dark 
broénze-green; flesh bright 
orange-yellow, fine grain- 
ed, thick, dry and richly 
flavored. Can be kept in 
good condition until 
spring. Pkg. 10c; oz. 35c; 
VY |b. $1.00. 
Royal Acorn (Mammoth Table Queen). 25% larger than the older variety. 
People who have tried this Squash claim its quality superior to that of any other. 
It is about the size of a cocoanut, 71% inches long and 6 inches through, thin-skinned, 
with thick meat, dry and mealy. To cook, cut in half, place a lump of butter on one 
half, top with the other, and then bake whole. Half a Squash serves one person. 
An enormous yielder—a few hills will supply a good sized family. Best when allowed 
to mature, when the shell is hard. Keeps well all winter. 
Pkg. 10c; oz. 35c; %4 Ib. $1.00 
Table Queen. (Des Moines, Queen Ann, Acorn.) The well known and very popu- 
lar “individual’’ Squash shaped like an ecorn. The fruit is about 5 inches long and 
4 inches across, deeply ribbed with dark green skin and thick orange flesh that cooks 
deliciously dry and sweet, and is never stringy. Keeps well all winter. 
Pkg. 10c; oz. 35c¢; %4 Ib. $1.00 
Uconn. Gold Medal 1950. Bush Type Table Queen. Don’t have the sharp ridges of 
Acorn. Early, heavy bearer. Two purpose. The miniature fruits can be picked during 
early growing season and eaten boiled whole; fruits that set later leave on the vine 
3 until frost and use as winter Squash. Biches delicious sees, eee ’. long ae 
ae i eS . Pkg. c; \W oz. GItOZ > OG aml bse bili 
Butternut Fe ou ea Le Apt Rapidly as Sweet Potatoes, Squash and Pumpkins must be cured by placing them in a tem- 
P perature of 75 to 80 degrees for two weeks before putting them in storage. 
SUMMER SQUASH 
Many of these varieties of Summer Squash may be planted with the hills rather close together, about 3 or 4 feet each way, as the plants do not 
make runners but are of bush form. Keep the fruit closely picked as it matures and it will bear all season long. A package of seed will make 
12 hills, 6 seeds to the hill; one ounce 35 hills. 
Mammoth Table Queen 
Italian Climbing. Lagenaria leucantha. Grows 3 to 5 ft. long, 
Caserta. Gold Medal Winner 1949, All-America Selections. The plant is diameter 3 in. Attractive light green. Most popular ways to 
bush type, no long runners, and you can have many plants in a small area. Prepare: Cut in small pieces and creamed and sliced thin and 
The fruits, often thirty to the plant, are cylindrical in shape, with very little | fried like Eggplant, also candied like Citron and Watermelon. 
taper. At their best eating stage when 6 to 7 inches long and 1 to 11% inches Pkg. 15c; \% oz. 35c; oz. 65c 
through. At maturity they will get to be 15 to 18 inches long and 5 inches et 
through. They are very uniform in size and shape, and of an attractive fresh 
green color. Caserta bears a crop earlier than other Summer Squashes and 
will produce heavily under many conditions. 
Pgs lipiGe ps 0zs92 567102. 40c; lA lbs Sle 
Cocozelle. italian Vegetable Marrow. The Long Type. Compact, bushy 
growing plants that take up little space in the garden. They bear fine crops 
of oblong, dark green fruits that are at their best when picked for the table 
when 5 inches long. Cut in small pieces and creamed, sliced and fried, or used 
as a salad, it is very delicious. Plant in hills in May and every 2 weeks until 
July. Ready in 65 days. Pkg. l!0c;'0z, 30c; 4-Ib. $1.00 
Early Prolific Straightneck. 50 days. Bush type plants that don’t 
spread; excellent for the home garden. The fruits are smooth, straight, of deli- 
cate creamy color when only 4 to 5 inches long, and until they are 12 to 14 
inches long. Early, have crops of very high quality. 
PKG OG oz SOc Alba sae 
Yellow Summer Crookneck. 50 days. The largest and one of the 
earliest of the creokneck summer Squashes. Vines are of bush habit, larger 
and more vigorous than Summer Crookneck. When mature, the fruits are often 
1% to 2 feet long, with exceedingly warted surface. 
PKkgs 10¢6z. 30¢c2 1/4 elb, 85¢ 
Yankee Hybrid Squash. All-America Winner, 1941. 45 days. This 
new Squash showed up particularly well in our trials again last summer. It was 
the earliest kind and certainly a heavy bearer. The fruits are straight, light 
yellow in color, of splendid appearance and very high quality. A good kind for 
either the home garden or for market. pag : 9, | 
Pkg. 15c; 5 oz. 35c; oz. 65c; Va Ib. $1.85 Early Prolific pe chp are pM ee Summer Squash 
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