Squashes: How to Grow Them, a Practical Treatise on Squash Culture, Giving Full Details on Every Point, Including Keeping and Marketing the Crop (Classic Reprint)

The recent great increase in interest in squash cultivation, which has been promoted by the introduction of new varieties, has seemed to me to demand a more thorough and exhaustive treatment of the subject than is to be found in our present standard works on horticulture or agriculture. I am sustained in this position by the great number of questions propounded to me annually in the course of an extensive correspondence. To answer these questions, and to bring so delicious a vegetable as the squash into a more general and more successful cultivation, is the object of this treatise. The Squash family (C ucurbitacece) have their habitat in the tropics and warmer portions of the temperate zones; hence they require our hottest seasons to develop them in perfection. With the exception of the Vegetable Marrow, the squash family is almost unknown to our English cousins, as likewise is true of our corn and beans, for though the average temperature of the year is higher with them than with us, yet the extreme hot weather, which, these vegetables require, is there wanting. The introduction of the squash is a matter of the past half century; until within that time, with the exception of the Crookneck, the pumpkins, yellow and black, or nigger, were the only varieties cultivated.
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