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| Keywords: The field and garden vegetables of America (Page 205) (6002641544).jpg THE PUMPKIN <br> 205 <br> well It is however exceedingly liable to hybridize with all <br> the varieties of the family and is with difficulty preserved <br> in an unmixed condition It should be grown as far apart as <br> possible from all others especially when the seed raised is <br> designed for sale or for reproduction at home <br> Sugar-Pumpkin <br> Small Sugar-pumpkin <br> Plant similar in its character and general appearance to the <br> Common Field Pumpkin ; fruit small eight or nine inches at <br> its broadest diameter and about six inches in depth ; form <br> much depressed usually broadest <br> near the middle and more or less dis- <br> tinctly ribbed; skin bright orange- <br> yellow when the fruit is well ripened <br> hard and shell-like and not easily <br> broken by the nail ; stem quite long <br> greenish furrowed and somewhat <br> reticulated ; flesh of good thickness <br> light-yellow very fine-grained sweet <br> and well flavored ; seeds of smaller <br> size than but in other respects similar <br> to those of the Field Pumpkin The variety is the smallest <br> of the sorts usually employed for field cultivation It is how- <br> ever a most abundant bearer rarely fails in maturing its crops <br> perfectly is of first-rate quality and may be justly styled an <br> acquisition For pies it is not surpassed by any of the family ; <br> and it is superior for table use to many of the garden squashes <br> The facility with which it hybridizes or mixes with other <br> kinds renders it extremely difficult to keep the variety pure ; <br> the tendency being to increase in size to grow longer or <br> deeper and to become warty either of which conditions may <br> be considered an infallible evidence of deterioration <br> Varieties sometimes occur more or less marbled and spotted <br> with green ; the green however often changing to yellow <br> after harvesting <br> r-pimipkii 29062543 92326 42073 Page 205 Text http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/29062543 1863 10 5962/bhl title 42073 Burr Fearing Biodiversity Heritage Library The field and garden vegetables of America United States Varieties Vegetable gardening Vegetables Library Congress bhl page 29062543 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/29062543 united states Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2011-08-02 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/6002641544 2015-09-10 20 55 52 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The field and garden vegetables of America Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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