. Bliss and Son's illustrated spring catalogue and amateur's guide to the flower and kitchen garden. Flowers Catalogs; Plants Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. SQUASH. [Cucurliila melo-pepo, Lix. Courge, Fit. Kurbiss, Ger. Cnlabaza tontatiera, Sr.] Squashes aie cultivated for their fruit, wliicli is muc-li esteemed as a vegetable, when cooked, or made into pies. There are nunierouf varieties, mostly yellow, pale green, mottled or striped. They are also smooth, warty, soft, and hard, and are classified into "Summer," " AVinter," "lJush,"
. Bliss and Son's illustrated spring catalogue and amateur's guide to the flower and kitchen garden. Flowers Catalogs; Plants Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. SQUASH. [Cucurliila melo-pepo, Lix. Courge, Fit. Kurbiss, Ger. Cnlabaza tontatiera, Sr.] Squashes aie cultivated for their fruit, wliicli is muc-li esteemed as a vegetable, when cooked, or made into pies. There are nunierouf varieties, mostly yellow, pale green, mottled or striped. They are also smooth, warty, soft, and hard, and are classified into "Summer," " AVinter," "lJush," and " ; Cl'LTlillE.—Being a very tender vine, the Squash is so sensitive of cold, that it can not he planted with safety in the Middle and Northern States before the middle of Way. The hills should be highly manured, and prepared in a similar manner to those for Cucumbers, all sorts tliinned to not more th;in three plants to a hill. J'Ict. O^. )i Lb. Lb. Early Yellow Bush Scolloped.—An early, flat. scoUoped-shaped sort, of a deep orange yellow, and smooth rind; used when young and tender for boiling, - - - - - - - - - - - .$0 05 ,f 0 10 $0 30 $1 00 Early White Bush Scolloped.—Similar in shape to the Yellow, light cream-colored. It grows to a larger size, of a coarser (piality, and is a little later; more grown at the South than any of the others. Both varieties are calleil " Patty-|ian" in the Southern and Middle Slates, 5 10 30 1 00 Early Summer Crook-neck.—The richest and best sort for Sum- mer; very early and productive. It is .small, crook-necked, covered with warty excrescences, (the more warty the better,) color bright yel- low ; shell very hard when ripe. It is usereceding; somewhat improved in form, - - - 10 20 CO 2 00 Yokohama.—A new variety from Japan, higlily recommended. It is of the Turban class of Squashes, anil measures from four to six inches through, and from six to twelve inches across, and weighs from six to twelve
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