SQUASH—wWinter Varieties—Continued 
Red or Golden Hubbard 100 days 
Fruit—10 inches long x 8 inches in diame- 
ter, round with pointed neck and blossom 
end, rind thickly covered with large, 
coarse, shallow warts; hard, tough, skin 
bright golden-red in color with faint 
cream colored stripes toward the blos- 
som end and a characteristic green tip. 
Flesh—deep orange-yellow, thick, fine 
grained, cooks very dry and has a rich, 
sweet flavor. 
Plant—vine. 
Smaller, earlier, often more prolific than 
Green Hubbard types. Used for home, 
market garden, canning and freezing 
purposes. A good keeper. 
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Table Queen, Des Moines or Acorn 
80 days 
Fruit—5 inches long x 4% inches in diame- 
ter, acorn or turbinate shape, surface 
deeply grooved or furrowed, skin 
smooth, dark greenish-black, sometimes 
becoming partly yellow in storage. 
Flesh—medium thick, pale orange, tender, 
slightly fibrous, dry, sweet and distinctly 
flavored. 
Plant—vine, very vigorous. 
An excellent table or individual size bak- © 
ing squash. Cut in half and baked, it 
serves one person amply. Very early 
maturing, exceedingly productive, more 
tolerant of poor soil and adverse condi- 
tions than most winter types, and a good 
keeper. Popular for home, market gar- 
den and shipping trade. 
Mammoth Table Queen (also called 
Royal Table Queen) 80 days 
Fruit—7 inches deep x 5% inches in diame- 
ter, a larger fruited strain of Table 
Queen otherwise similar in shape and 
color. 
Flesh—pale-orange, medium thick, tender, 
dry, sweet and flavorful. 
A distinctive, large fruited strain cf this 
hardy, prolific and good keeping variety. 
Maintained for those wanting a larger 
sized Table Queen squash. Introduced by 
TOMATO 
Maturity figures for each variety indicate approximate time from setting of plants 
to field until appearance of ripe, marketable fruits 
Avon Extra Early Scarlet 66 days 
Fruit—uniform, deep scarlet red, medium 
sized, flattened globe shape, smooth, 
meaty fleshed. Grows in clusters of 5 to 
8 fruits. 
Vine—partly spreading and more upright 
than Earliana with medium large, dark 
green leaves. 
A good tomato in the Earliana class. 
Bonny Best 73 days 
Fruit—attractive, uniformly medium large, 
smooth, small cored, solid, evenly col- 
ored scarlet-red, oblate to nearly globe 
shape. A good cropper, of tart flavor, 
excellent quality and free from circular 
cracks. 
Vine—medium size, semi-erect and spread- 
ing with dark green heavy foliage giving 
good coverage to fruits; quite prolific. 
Adapted to pruning and staking if de- 
sired. Susceptible to leaf spot and not 
as hardy as some types. 
A standard second early general purpose 
variety for home and market gardening, 
shipping and forcing under glass. 
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