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| Keywords: Everything for the garden (15768433504).jpg 60 <br> EVERYTHING FO <br> H <br> ENDERSON'S <br> DELICATA SQUASH <br> A Perfect All Season Squash Summer and Winter Crop on <br> One Plant Produces Fifteen to Twenty Fruits to <br> A Vine Delicious Chestnut Flavor <br> Delicata produces an enormous number of fruits <br> of such convenient size that the entire Squash can <br> be used at one time <br> It is ready almost as soon as the early sum- <br> mer sorts is better flavored and remains in per- <br> fect condition as long as any keeping variety <br> Its flavor when cooked has been compared <br> to the Sweet Potato others liken it to roasted <br> chestnuts but all agree that it is delicious The fruits <br> are about 9 inches long and when ripe are deep yellow <br> irregularly striped and marbled with dark olive green <br> The flesh is thick of fine texture and pale yellow in color It is <br> unexcelled for baking � the shape and size make it perfect for this purpose <br> and none is better for pies When <br> Diled it is dry granular and mealy <br> OUR LEAFLET <br> HOW TO GROW <br> PUMPKINS AND <br> SQUASH SENT <br> FREE IF <br> ASKED FOR <br> GENERAL LIST OF SQUASHES <br> 1 oz for 50 hills <br> SUMMER VARIETIES <br> Golden Custard Henderson's A very large golden scalloped <br> bush Squash wonderfully productive and of extra quality <br> Price 10c pkt 15c oz 35c li lb 1 10 lb <br> Vegetable Marrow Bush A favorite English variety bearing <br> long dull yellow fruits The flesh is extremely tender marrowy <br> and delicious Should be used before fully grown Price 10c <br> pkt 15c oz 40c U lb 1 25 lb <br> White Bush Scalloped The white Patty Pan or Cymling ; <br> creamy-white skin; fine quality free cropper Price 5c pkt <br> 10c oz 30c M lb 90c lb <br> Yellow Bush Summer Crookneck A bush variety early and <br> prolific; surface deep yellow densely warted; quality and flavor <br> good Price 5c pkt 10c oz 30c M lb 90c lb <br> AUTUMN AND WINTER VARIETIES <br> Boston Marrow A popular Squash for autumn and winter use; <br> skin thin reddish-yellow; flesh dry fine grained and delicious <br> Price 5c pkt 10c oz 30c J 4 lb 1 00 lb <br> Delicious Resembles Hubbard in shape and is remarkably <br> good in flavor Price 10c pkt 15c oz 40c \i lb 1 25 lb <br> Early Prolific Marrow A very popular second early Squash for <br> autumn and early winter use Price 5c pkt 10c oz 30c i' <br> lb 1 00 lb <br> Essex Hybrid One of the best for winter; a good keeper of good <br> size bright orange; flesh thick dry and most delicious Price <br> 5c pkt 15c oz 35c M lb 1 10 lb <br> Golden Hubbard Similar to the old Hubbard except that the <br> skin is of a rich orange-red and heavily warted; flesh of extra <br> fine quality Price 10c pkt 15c oz 40c J lb 1 25 lb <br> Mammoth Chili The largest of all Squashes often weighing 200 <br> lbs or over; flesh rich and fine flavored Price 10c pkt 20c <br> oz 50c M lb 1 50 lb <br> See cut Price 10c pkt 20c oz 50c \i lb 1 50 lb <br> LAKGE WARTED HUBBARD SQUASH <br> GROW WAKTED HUBBARD AND KEEP THE BEST TILL LAST <br> Everyone knows that Hubbard Squash is a good keeper Warted Hubbard keeps <br> fejk even better and is larger It is named on account of its greater size <br> and the excessively rough warty surface of the fruits This is of no <br> value in itself but heavy warts indicate a hard shell and the harder <br> the shell so much the' better will the Squash keep The plant is <br> vigorous and bears a heavy crop The quality is superb and the <br> rich fine grained yellow flesh almost fills the fruit See cut <br> Price 10c pkt 20c oz 50c 14 lb 1 50 lb <br> HUBBARD SQUASH <br> HENDERSON'S SUPERIOR STRAIN <br> This is an old favorite and very popular The vines are strong of <br> luxuriant growth and very productive yielding large heavy- <br> Squashes of dark bluish-green color It is an excellent keeper <br> and if properly stored may be used until May Price 5c <br> pkt 15c oz 40c 14 lb 1 25 lb <br> HENDERSON'S <br> Heart c Gold Squash <br> One of the handsomest varieties grown The fruits are <br> large averaging 30 lbs in weight The vine is vigorous <br> and bears a heavy crop The fruits are very attractive <br> in appearance The exterior is heavily warted and closely <br> ribbed reddish orange in color with a very hard shell <br> The flesh is deep remarkably granular and solid arid is <br> far better in quality than any other large Squash <br> It is equally good whether baked or boiled and is often used for pies <br> for which purpose its superior quality is greatly appreciated See cut <br> Price 10c pkt 20c oz 55c 4 lb 1 75 lb <br> We deliver Free in U S h J r £ t 5 SiS3S Vegetable and Flower Seeds <br> I by the pkt oz <br> i and quarter lb <br> Also Lawn Grass Seeds 43874852 149634 78295 Page 60 Text http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/43874852 c1915 10 5962/bhl title 78295 Henry G Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection ; Peter Henderson Co NameFound Delicata NameConfirmed Delicata Krammer 2003 EOLID 9080777 Biodiversity Heritage Library Everything for the garden 1915 Garden Stories Books Bulbs Plants Catalogs Equipment and supplies Flowers Gardening Lawn mowers Seeds U S Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Library bhl page 43874852 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/43874852 bhlGardenStories BHLinbloom bulbs plants u s department of agriculture national agricultural library bhlgardenstories bhlinbloom Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2015-01-28 Check categories 2015 August 25 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/15768433504 2015-08-25 02 53 16 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 Everything for the garden 1915 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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