VEGETABLE MARROW

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 967 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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VEGETABLE MARROW , Cucurbita Pepe, var. ovifera, the most important of the gourds (q.v.), used as an escuient, furnishing in good seasons a very large

supply

SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

for the table.' They are best when eaten quite

young

and not over-boiled, the flesh being then tender, and the flavour sweet and nutty. The Custard Marrow, or crown gourd, bears a peculiar-looking flattened fruit with scalloped edges, which has a sweeter and less nutty flavour than the true marrow. A very distinct form known as Pen-y-Byd has a delicate creamy white nearly globular fruit, with a firm flesh. ' The

bush

BUSH

marrows are more bushy in habit and taller and more sturdy in growth.
Vegetable marrows require a warm' situation and a rich soil free from stagnant moisture. They do well on a rubbish or old-dung heap, or in a warm border on little hillocks made up with any fermenting material, to give them a slight warmth at starting. The seeds should be sown in a warm pit in April, and forwarded under glass, but in a very mild heat ; the plants must be shifted into larger pots, and be gradually hardened previous to being planted out, when the mild weather sets in in May or June. The use of hand-glasses makes it possible to transplant earlier than would otherwise be advisable. The seeds may he sown early in May in pots under a hand-glass, or towards the end of May in the open ground, if heat is not at command. The true vegetable marrow bears fruit of an oblong-elliptical shape, about 9 in. long,

pale

PALE (through Fr. pal, from Lat. palms, a stake, for paglus, from the stem pag- of pangere, to fix; "
pole
" is from the same original source)

-greenish while

young

, with whitish flesh, and scarcely any indication of ribs; when mature it is of a

pale

PALE (through Fr. pal, from Lat. palms, a stake, for paglus, from the stem pag- of pangere, to fix; "
pole
" is from the same original source)

yellow colour. There is a variety which is more oblong, grows to '15 or 18 in., and has the surface slightly marked by irregular longitudinal obtuse ribs.' The shoots may be allowed to ruti along the surface of the ground, or they may be trained against a

wall

WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the
original
- ORIGINAL
O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

-or paling, or on trellises. As the gourds

cross

CROSS

readily, care is necessary to keep any particular variety true. One of the best vegetable marrows is called Moore's Vegetable Cream:

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