Squashes: How to Grow Them. Practical Treatise On Squash Culture, Giving Full Details of Every Point, Including Keeping And Marketing the Crop
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The form of the Hubbard is spherical at the middle, gradually receding to a neck at the stem end, and to a point, usually curved, at the calyx end, where it termi- nates in a kind of button or an acorn. In color it is dark green, excepting where it rests on the earth, where it is of an orange color. It usually has streaks of dirty white, beginning at the calyx end, where the ribs meet, and ex- tending half or two-thirds way to the stem. After the squash ripens, the surface exposed to the sun tu...rns to a SQUASHES, HOW TO GROW THEM, ETC. 47 dirty brown color. The surface is often rather rough, presenting quite a knotty appearance. When the Hub- bard is ripe, it has a shell, varying in thickness, from that of a cent to a Spanish dollar. For a year or two after we began to cultivate the Hub- bard, we cultivated also a blue-colored squash, called at the time the Middleton Blue. In a few years this squash became so thoroughly incorporated with the Hubbard, by repeated crossings, that it appeared to liave the charac- teristics of a new variety ; hence we called it the Blue Hubbard, and for some years I spoke of two varieties of the Hubbard, a green and a blue kind.
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