The Family Kitchen Gardener (1856)/Pumpkin
PUMPKIN, OR POMPION.
Cucúrbita, var.—Courge, Fr.—Kürbis, Ger.
We cannot think of admitting this vegetable into the precincts of a garden where there are Melons, Cucumbers, and other kindred plants. It would mix with and contaminate the quality of the more valuable sorts. If, however, there is an opportunity to plant a few in the field, among the Corn, we would recommend among the many sorts, the Cashaw, as being the best. There is a variety of a very coarse nature cultivated in the field, called the Mammoth, which frequently attains the enormous weight of two hundred and fifty pounds, and is only fit for pigs or cattle.