| 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 original 
Hubbard. It will pay you to try it in your garden. 
| Pkg. 15c; Yo oz. 30c; oz. 45c; V4 Ib. $1.35 
Buttercup. Productive—High Quality. No doubt one of the highest quality, 
f 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 test< 
are made for quality. Pkg. 15c; YW oz. 30c; oz. 45c; YW Ib. $1.35 
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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. 15¢; 4 oz. 35c; oz. 60c; 4 Ib. $1.65 
Delicious. The meat is so dry and fine grained that it greatly resembles that of a 
good Sweet Potato. Delicious does not grow as large as Hubbard, usually weighing 
from 5 to 10 Ibs., but is very heavy, as the orange colored flesh is so thick that there . é 
j Is but very little seed cavity in the center A splendid winter keeper and one you Buttercup is a long-keeping Squcsh of top quality 
t should grow in the garden. Pkg. 15c; \ oz. 30c; oz. 45c; Y% Ib. $1.35 
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. 15c; W% oz. 30c; oz. 45c; Y Ib. $1.35 
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, drv. fine grained and richlv large, heavy and moder- 
flavored. Pkg. 15c; Ym oz. 30c; oz. 45c; V4 Ib. $1.35 ately warted, with a very 
hard shell; skin dark 
bronze-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; 
V4 Ib. $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. 15c¢; Y2 oz. 30c; oz. 45¢; % Ib. $1.35 
Table Queen. (Des Moines, Queen Ann, Acorn.) The well known and very popu- 
lar ‘individual’ Squash shaped like an acorn. 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; YW% 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 
— ; ; until frost and use as winter Squash. Rich, meaty, delicious flavor. Keeps a long time. 
Butternut—Its Popularity is Increasing Rapidly as Pkg. 15c; Y oz. 30c; oz. 45¢: VA Ib) $1.35 
More People Get to Know it 
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. Keen 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. Dust or spray with Rot2none to protect against bugs. ; 
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 
Mammoth Table Queen 
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 114 inches Pkg. 20c; Y2 oz. 35c; oz. 65c¢; % Ib. $2.25 
through. At maturity they will get to be 15 to 18 inches long and g inches 
through. They are very uniform in size and shape, and of an attractive fresh 
green color. Pkg. 15c; Y% oz. 30c; oz. 45c; Y% Ib. $1.15 
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. 15c; YW oz. 30c; oz. 45c; Y% Ib. $1.15 
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 thev are 12 to 14 
inches long. Early, very high quality. Pkg. 15c; oz. 30c; %4 Ib. 95c¢ 
Seneca Zucchini Hybrid. Ready to eat in 50 days. Very dark green 
fruits uniformly long and cylindrical. Excellent quality. Plants vigorous growing, 
upright, bush type, taking up but little space in the garden. 
Pkg. 20c; Yo oz. 45c; oz. 80c; 4 Ib. $2.65 
Yellow Summer Crookneck. 50 days. The largest and one of the 
earliest of the crcokneck 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 warted surface. 
Pkg. 10c; Y% oz. 25c; oz. 40c; 4 Ib. $1.00 
Yankee Hybrid Squash. A\j!-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 Early Prolific Straightneck—An Excellent Summer Squash 
garden or for market. Pkg. 20c; 4 oz. 45¢; oz. 80c; Y% Ib. $2.25 for Your Garden 
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