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 595 Plant of Cucurbita Pepo. discovered, in fields of maize. For studies in the nativity of the Pumpkins and Squashes, see De CandoUe, Origin of Cultivated Plants; Gray a
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 595 Plant of Cucurbita Pepo. discovered, in fields of maize. For studies in the nativity of the Pumpkins and Squashes, see De CandoUe, Origin of Cultivated Plants; Gray and Trumbull, Amer. .Journ. Sci. 25: 372 ; Sturtevant, Amer. Nat. 1890 : 727 ; Witt- mack, Ber. der Deutschen Bot. Gesell. 6: 378 (1888). \;>r. condensa. Bush Pumpkins. Scallop and Sum- mer ('uiiiiKNEi.'K SQUASHES. Plant compact, little or not at ail runnini. Of horticultural origin. Var. ovifera. {Covifera, Linn.). Goukd. Fig. 597. Plant slender, running: Ivs. smaller than in C. Pepo, usually very prominently lobed: fr. small, hard and in- edible, egg-shaped, globular, pear-shaped, oblate, often striped. 1894, p. 429. —Sold in many vars. by seeds- men, under the names of C. Pepo vars. pyriformis, di'pressa, annulala, etc. See Gourd. mosch&ta, Duchesne {C. vieloncefdrmis, Carr.). CisHAw. China, Canada Crookneok and Winter ('udoKNECK Squashes. Figs. 598, 599, 600. Annual : loug-ruuuiug, less prickly and sometimes soft-hairy: Ivs. more rounded than those of C. Pepo, but lobed, often grayish: fl. with a widening tube, and large, erect lobes: calyx-lobes large, often leaf-like: peduncle becoming deeply ridged and much enlarged next the fr. Possibly of East Asian origin. 594. Section of Flower of Turban Squash. 596. Stem of Cucurbita Pepo—Early Sugar Pumpkin. AA. Iji'S. not lobed {except sometintes on young sJioots): stalks of fruits not prominently ridged. mixima, Duchesne. Squash. Figs. 601-604. Annual: long-running, the stems nearly cylindrical, little prickly and o
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