oped. The plant has
the same dwarf habit, and the fruit is nearly of the same size and
form. The principal distinction between the varieties consists in the
difference of color.

By some, the white variety is considered a little inferior in fineness
of texture and in flavor to the yellow; though the white is much the
more abundant in the markets. Both of the varieties are hardy and
productive; and there is but little difference in the season of their
maturity.

In the month of June, large quantities are shipped from the Southern and
Middle States to the North and East, where they anticipate from two to
three weeks the products of the home-market gardens; the facilities
afforded by steam transportation rendering nearly profitless the efforts
of gardeners to obtain an early crop. As the variety keeps well, and
suffers little from transportation, the squashes are generally found
fresh and in good order on their arrival.

EARLY YELLOW BUSH SCOLLOPED.

Cymbling. Pattypan. Yellow Summer Scollop.

[Illustration: Early Yellow Bush Scolloped.]

Plant dwarf, of rather erect habit, and about two feet and a half in
height; leaves large, clear-green; fruit somewhat of a hemispherical
form, expanded at the edge, which is deeply and very regularly
scolloped. When suitable for use, it measures about five inches in
diameter, and three inches in depth; but, when fully matured, the
diameter is often ten or twelve inches, and even upwards. Color yellow;
skin, while young, thin, and easily pierced,--at maturity, hard and
shell-like; flesh pale-yellow, tolerably fine-grained, and well
flavored,--not, however, quite so dry and sweet as that of the Summer
Crookneck; seeds broader in proportion to their length than the seeds of
most varieties, and of comparatively small size. Four hundred and
twenty-five weigh an ounce.

This variety has been common to the gardens of this country for upwards
of a century; during which period, the form and general character have
been very slightly, if at all, changed. When grown in the vicinity of
the Bush Summer Crookneck, the surface sometimes exhibits the same
wart-like excrescences; but there is little difficulty in procuring
seeds that will prove true to the description above given.

Like the Summer Crookneck, the scolloped squashes are used while young
or in a green state. After the hardening of the skin, or shell, the
flesh generally becomes coarse, watery, strong-flavored, and unfit for
the