e, oblate, depressed about the stem, broadly, and
sometimes deeply, but in general faintly, ribbed; skin moderately thick,
but not shell-like, of an ash-green color, striped and variegated with
drab or lighter shades of green; flesh reddish-orange, very thick, of
good flavor, but less dry and sweet than that of the Hubbard or Boston
Marrow; seeds large, white.

This recently introduced variety is hardy, productive, a good keeper,
excellent for pies, and by some esteemed for table use.

Specimens frequently occur of a reddish cream-color, striped and marked
with drab or pale-yellow.

HUBBARD. _J. J. H. Gregory._

[Illustration: Hubbard Squash.]

Plant similar in character and appearance to that of the Autumnal
Marrow; fruit irregularly oval, sometimes ribbed, but often without
rib-markings, from eight to ten inches in length, seven or eight inches
in diameter, and weighing from seven to nine pounds,--some specimens
terminate quite obtusely, others taper sharply towards the extremities,
which are frequently bent or curved; skin, or shell, dense and hard,
nearly one-eighth of an inch thick, and overspread with numerous small
protuberances; stem fleshy, but not large; color variable, always rather
dull, and usually clay-blue or deep olive-green,--the upper surface, if
long exposed to the sun, assuming a brownish cast, and the under
surface, if deprived of light, becoming orange-yellow; flesh rich
salmon-yellow, thicker than that of the Autumnal Marrow, very
fine-grained, sweet, dry, and of most excellent flavor,--in this last
respect, resembling that of roasted or boiled chestnuts; seeds
white,--similar to those of the Autumnal Marrow. Season from September
to June; but the flesh is dryest and sweetest during autumn and the
early part of winter.

The Hubbard Squash should be grown in hills seven feet apart, and three
plants allowed to a hill. It is essential that the planting be made as
far as possible from similar varieties, as it mixes, or hybridizes,
readily with all of its kind. In point of productiveness, it is about
equal to the Autumnal Marrow. "The average yield from six acres was
nearly five tons of marketable squashes to the acre."

Mr. J. J. H. Gregory, of Marblehead, Mass., who introduced this variety
to notice, and through whose exertions it has become widely
disseminated, remarks in the "New-England Farmer" as follows:--

"Of its history I know next to nothing, farther than that the seed was
given