ot only over our entire country, but throughout
Europe. It succeeds better in England than the Crooknecks; and may
be seen in great abundance every season at Covent-Garden Market, in
London.

Early in the spring of 1831, a friend of mine from Northampton, in
this State, brought to my grounds a specimen of this vegetable, of
five or six pounds' weight, which he called "Vegetable Marrow." As
it bore no resemblance to the true Vegetable Marrow, either in its
form or color, I planted the seeds, and was successful in raising
eight or ten specimens. Finding it a superior vegetable, with a
skin as thin as the inner envelope of an egg, and the flesh of fine
texture, and also that it was in eating early in the fall, I
ventured to call it "Autumnal Marrow Squash." Soon a drawing was
made, and forwarded, with a description, to the "Horticultural
Register" of Fessenden, and also to the "New-England Farmer."

In cultivating this vegetable, I found the fruit to average from
eight to nine pounds, particularly if grown on newly broken-up sod
or grass land. From its facility in hybridizing with the tribe of
pumpkins, I consider it to be, properly speaking, a fine-grained
pumpkin. The first indication of deterioration or mixture will be
manifested in the thickening of the skin, or by a green circle or
coloring of green at the blossom-end.

More recently, I have been informed, by the gentleman to whom I was
indebted for the first specimen, that the seeds came originally
from Buffalo, N.Y., where they were supposed to have been
introduced by a tribe of Indians, who were accustomed to visit that
city in the spring of the year. I have not been able to trace it
beyond this. It is, unquestionably, an accidental hybrid.

Yours truly,
JOHN M. IVES.

Mr. F. BURR, Jun.

CANADA CROOKNECK.

The plants of this variety are similar in habit to those of the Common
Winter Crookneck; but the foliage is smaller, and the growth less
luxuriant. In point of size, the Canada Crookneck is the smallest of its
class. When the variety is unmixed, the weight seldom exceeds five or
six pounds. It is sometimes bottle-formed; but the neck is generally
small, solid, and curved in the form of the Large Winter Crooknecks. The
seeds are conta