Gourd, Sagenaria vulgaris, and PUMPKIN, Cucurbita pepo, are chiefly employed in the making of pies, etc. There are numerous varieties, varying in the shape and colour of their fruit: as the globular, oval, pear-shaped, green, striped, marbled, yellow, etc, etc. One variety, of a pale buff or salmon colour and globular form grows to the weight of one hundred and ten pounds and upwards: it is known in France as the Potiron Jaune, and used in soups, but in particular from being mashed and eaten as potatoes or turnips, being of a very pleasant and peculiar flavour. The bottle-shaped is of little use for culinary purposes, but is remarkable as being of the form of a Florence or oil-flask.

Cucurbita melopepo, the Squash. Cucurbita succada, the Vegetable Marrow. Both these are cultivated for the fruit, which being gathered when of the size of a goose's egg, is boiled whole in salt and water, laid upon toast, and eaten as asparagus. Of the squash, there are almost as many varieties as of the pompion, and similarly characterized. The young fruit is much used in pickles. They may be sown in a hotbed of moderate strength, under a frame or hand-glasses at the end of March or early in April. In May they may be sown in the open ground, beneath a south fence, to remain, or in a hot-bed, if at its commencement, to forward the plants for transplanting at its close, or early in June. The plants are fit for transplanting when they have got four rough leaves, or when of about a month's growth. They must be planted without any shelter on dunghills, or in holes prepared as directed for the open ground crop of cucumbers. Some may be inserted beneath pales, walls or hedges, to be trained regularly over them on account of their ornamental appearance. They may be treated in every respect like the cucumber, only they do not want so much care. They require abundance of water in dry weather.

When the runners have extended three feet, they may be pegged down and covered with earth at a joint; this will cause the production of roots, and the longer continuance of the plant in vigour.

The fruit for seed should be selected and treated as directed for the cucumber. It is ripe in the course of September or October.

We have retained this article in its original form as a matter of curiosity, not only as regards the artificial means necessary in Great Britain, for the production of the pumpkin and the squash, but also with reference to the manner in which the latter vegetable is served at table. In the United States no person who cultivates a garden, however small, can be presumed ignorant as to the culture of these vines, and it is therefore unnecessary to add a word of instruction. The pumpkin described as the Potiron Jaune is the one known with us as the mammoth, of which specimens have been exhibited before the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, over eight feet in circumference.