Vegetable gardening in the mountain glades . Fig. 7.—Squash plats in glade garden. VEGETABLE GARDENING IN THE MOUNTAIN GLADES. 381 speciraan from a hill upon which fruits averaged nearly two feet inlength and five inches in diameter. The specimen on top of thetwo squashes at the right in Fig. 5 is 21 inches long, yellow incolor and belonging to the bush type of C. pepo. CULTURAL SUGGESTIONS. The field culture of the squash is so simple that any notes on thesubject aeem almost out of place. One precaution is necessary,however, the plant is very susceptible to injury by cold. The seedsshould not
Vegetable gardening in the mountain glades . Fig. 7.—Squash plats in glade garden. VEGETABLE GARDENING IN THE MOUNTAIN GLADES. 381 speciraan from a hill upon which fruits averaged nearly two feet inlength and five inches in diameter. The specimen on top of thetwo squashes at the right in Fig. 5 is 21 inches long, yellow incolor and belonging to the bush type of C. pepo. CULTURAL SUGGESTIONS. The field culture of the squash is so simple that any notes on thesubject aeem almost out of place. One precaution is necessary,however, the plant is very susceptible to injury by cold. The seedsshould not be planted until the soil has become thoroughly warm-ed and all dai:ger of killing frosts has passed. A safe date for thesection under discussion is from May 15th to 20th. After theyoung plants appear above ground they are liable to be destroyedby the stiiped cucumber beetle or by the squash bug. Both thesepests are very persistent and usually ver} abundant so that pre-parations for controlling them should be made a t or before plant-ing
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