. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. gourds, cucumbers and melons. Suggestions.—There are probably no fruits which are so end-lessly variable as the pumpkins and squashes, and none, there- PUMPKINS AND SQUASHES 299 fore, which are better adapted to a gross comparative study offorms, sizes and other characters. Persons are always asking howto tell a pumpkin from a squash. There is no well-defined usageof the words, but there are three types of fruits to which thenames may be variously applied. These are well distinguished bymeans
. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. gourds, cucumbers and melons. Suggestions.—There are probably no fruits which are so end-lessly variable as the pumpkins and squashes, and none, there- PUMPKINS AND SQUASHES 299 fore, which are better adapted to a gross comparative study offorms, sizes and other characters. Persons are always asking howto tell a pumpkin from a squash. There is no well-defined usageof the words, but there are three types of fruits to which thenames may be variously applied. These are well distinguished bymeans of foliage or other characters, but the most obvious differ-ences to the inexperienced lie in the peduncles or fruits with cylindrical, spongy stems, which do not enlarge atthe junction with the fruit, are squashes (Fig. 305). The Hub-bard, turbans, Boston Marrow and Essex are of this type; alsothe mammoth fruits known as Chili pumpkins. Fig. 306 shows thehard angled stem of the pumpkin, as this term is understood inAmerica. It includes the common field or pie pumpkin, and also. Pio. of Large Cheese pumpkin. the summer erookneck and patty-pan squashes. The types in and 306 do not inter-cross. Fig. 307 shows another type ofpumpkin, in which the angled stem enlarges as it joins the so-called Japanese pumpkins, Cushaw pumpkins or squashes,and the winter or Canada erookneck, belong here. 300 J^JSSSONS WITH PLANTS LVII. TOMATOES AND ORANGES 357. The tomato was originally a 2-lociiledfruit. Something very like the aboriginal typemay be seen at the present day in the littleCherry tomato of the gardens. 358. Cultivation is high feeding. We supplythe plant with more food by making the land
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