table.

The hills should be made about four feet apart, and three plants allowed
to a hill. Season from the beginning of July to the middle or last of
August.

EGG-SQUASH.

Cucurbita ovifera.

An ornamental variety, generally cultivated for its peculiar, egg-like
fruit, which usually measures about three inches in length, and two
inches or two and a half in diameter. Skin, or shell, white. It is
seldom used as an esculent; though, in its young state, the flesh is
quite similar in flavor and texture to that of the scolloped varieties.
"If trained to a trellis, or when allowed to cover a dry, branching
tree, it is quite ornamental; and, in its ripened state, is quite
interesting, and attractive at public exhibitions." Increase of size
indicates mixture or deterioration.

"It has been generally supposed, that the Egg-squash was a native of
Astrachan, in Tartary. Dr. Loroche included it in a list of plants not
natives of Astrachan, but cultivated only in gardens where it is
associated with such exotics as Indian corn, or maize, with which it was
probably introduced directly or indirectly from America. We also learn
from Loroche that this species varied in form, being sometimes
pear-shaped; that it was sometimes variegated in color with green and
white, and the shell served instead of boxes. Here we have plainly
indicated the little gourd-like, hard-shelled, and variegated squashes
that are often cultivated as ornamental plants.

"From these and similar authorities, it is evident that summer squashes
were originally natives of America, where so many of them were found in
use by the Indians, when the country began to be settled by
Europeans."--_Dr. T. W. Harris, in Pennsylvania Farm Journal._

GREEN BUSH SCOLLOPED.

Pattison Vert. _Vil._

Fruit similar in size and form to the Yellow or White Bush Scolloped;
skin or shell bottle-green, marbled or clouded with shades of lighter
green. It is comparatively of poor quality, and is little cultivated.

GREEN-STRIPED BERGEN.

"Plant dwarf, but of strong and vigorous habit; fruit of small size,
bell-shaped; colors dark-green and white, striped.

"An early but not productive sort, little cultivated at the North or
East, but grown to a considerable extent for the New-York market. It is
eaten both while green and when fully ripe."

LARGE SUMMER WARTED CROOKNECK.

A large variety of the Bush or Dwarf Summer Crookneck. Plant twelve feet
and upwards in length, run