. Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden for 1878. Nursery stock Massachusetts Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Kitchen gardens Catalogs. CANADA CROOKNECK SQUASH. per OZ. Canada Crookneck. A small variety of the precedinfr; ripens enrlv, and, all things considered, is one of tiic best for general cultivation. Per pkt., 10 .20 Melon. New. A summer variety; small, vellow tlesh, melon-shaped: excellent quality, and very productive. Per pkt., 10 ... "j. THE MABBLEHEAD SQUASH. Marblehead. A new variety of the finest quality, weiphing from 10
. Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden for 1878. Nursery stock Massachusetts Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Kitchen gardens Catalogs. CANADA CROOKNECK SQUASH. per OZ. Canada Crookneck. A small variety of the precedinfr; ripens enrlv, and, all things considered, is one of tiic best for general cultivation. Per pkt., 10 .20 Melon. New. A summer variety; small, vellow tlesh, melon-shaped: excellent quality, and very productive. Per pkt., 10 ... "j. THE MABBLEHEAD SQUASH. Marblehead. A new variety of the finest quality, weiphing from 10 to 15 lbs.; one of the very best for a late sort. {See"page 120.) Per pkt., 5 cts. Dlammoth. The largest known. Seeds which we offer â were saved fmm n squash weighing one hundred and eighty pounds, â a monster. Per pkt., 10. Turban) or Turk's Cap. A superior late-growing variety; of a greenish color, striped with white, and thus in form and color somewhat resembling a turban,whence the name; flesh orange-yellow, thick,fine-grained,sugary, and well-flavored. Per pkt., 10 Yokohama. A new variety from .Tapan; finest grained of all the Squashes, with a rich Marrow flavor. Per pkt., 10 Lnngren. The leaves are singularly variegated with vellow, the depths of color vary- ing in difTereiit plants from pale yellow to "bright orange, and diflering also in the amount of variegations as*the season progresses. The color is most profuse at the base of the leaf, and is distributed theuce in serrated stripes, towards, but not reaching, the borders. The fruit is bottled-formed, much resembling the "Puritan;" entirely â white, about one foot in length, eight inches in its greatest diamf|er, and â weighs from eight to ten pounds. The stem is thick, short, and fleshy. The flesh is pale yellowish-white, thick, fine-grained, dry, and sweet, and peculiarlv free from the strong flavor common to many varieties. It cooks â ~<;11, early or late in the season, and even before
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