Egg-Shaped, or Reeves. Thomp.
Fruit large, weighing from fifteen to twenty pounds; but in rich, highly manured soil, and with only a few on each plant, it may be grown to upwards of fifty pounds' weight. It is short, ovate, sometimes tapering rather abruptly. Skin, or shell, hard, of a reddish color; flesh firm, red, excellent in a ripe state cooked as a vegetable, or in any other way in which squashes are prepared. The stems run to a very great length, and bear all along most abundantly. Altogether, it is a sort highly deserving of cultivation.
It was brought into notice by John Reeves, Esq.; who has contributed to horticulture many valuable plants from China, where he resided for many years.
Plant in hills eight feet apart, and thin to two plants to a hill.
Honolulu.
Plant twelve feet or more in length, remarkably strong and vigorous; leaves very large,—the leaf-stems often three feet and upwards in length; fruit large, 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.
