Archive image from page 228 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom cyclopediaofamer02bail Year: 1906 CUCUMIS CUCURBITA 409 â water-melon like: fls. small, the pistillate long-stalked: fr. 1-3 in. long, cucumber-like but more spiny. Supposed to be native to the Amer. trop
Archive image from page 228 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom cyclopediaofamer02bail Year: 1906 CUCUMIS CUCURBITA 409 â water-melon like: fls. small, the pistillate long-stalked: fr. 1-3 in. long, cucumber-like but more spiny. Supposed to be native to the Amer. tropics. 5817.â Cult, both for the oddity of its frts. and for the making of pickles. The Gherkins of mixed pickles, however, are young ('ucumbers. â C. pertnnis J L CUCURBIT. A plantof the genus turcur bita. Sometimes shortened to Cucurb CUCUBBITA (classical name) Cuciu bilAcew. Gourd. Pumpkin. Squash \ me like herbs, tendril-bearing, inhabitants i warm countries. Fls. moncecious,liige yellow, solitary in the axils, the stam inate long stalked, the pistillate short stalked : corolla 5-lobed : stamens 3, arising from the bottom of the fl., and united in a column : stigmas 3, but 2-lobed : ovary inferior, en- closing a hollow receptacle: tendrils 2-3 forked. About 10 species. The morphology of the Pepo or Gourd-fruit may be illustrated by the Turban Squash. (Figs. 592, 593, 594.) In this fruit, there is a ' squash inside a squash.' The inner part bears the corolla and the styles. It is the ovary. The corolla is attached about the edge of the peduncle very hard and deeply furrowed when mature, not enlarging next the fr.: the fr. very various in form, color, season, size. âProbably native to trop. Amer., but unknown wild. Cult, by the Indians when Amer. was i/
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