Vick's garden and floral guide . HUBBARD SQUASH, THE STANDARD SORT SQUASH Squash likes a rich soil, and it is best to manure in the hill. Plant a dozen seedsin each hill, and when danger from bugs is over pull up all but three or bush sorts, make hills four or five feet apart each way, and for the runningkinds twice that distance. Winter Squash should be ripened thoroughly, orthey will not keep through the winter. One ounce of early varieties for fifLy hillsand two ounces of late will plant fifty hills ; ihree to four pounds per acre. Packet, 5 cents; oz., 10 cents; 4 lb., 30 cents; l

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Vick's garden and floral guide . HUBBARD SQUASH, THE STANDARD SORT SQUASH Squash likes a rich soil, and it is best to manure in the hill. Plant a dozen seedsin each hill, and when danger from bugs is over pull up all but three or bush sorts, make hills four or five feet apart each way, and for the runningkinds twice that distance. Winter Squash should be ripened thoroughly, orthey will not keep through the winter. One ounce of early varieties for fifLy hillsand two ounces of late will plant fifty hills ; ihree to four pounds per acre. Packet, 5 cents; oz., 10 cents; 4 lb., 30 cents; lb., $;except as noted ; all postpaid. Summer Squash Mammoth White Bush Scallop {Silver Custard). The best of the scalloped Squashes. Handsome and of fine quality. Mammoth Bush Summer CrooRnecR. The richest and best of the Summer Squashes. Early and productive. It is almosttwice as large as the ordinary Summer Crookneck. Autumn and Winter Sorts Delicious. The Delicious is the result of years of careful selectioncrossing, and

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