These three species are not known in a wild state; but Asa Gray[751] gives good reason for believing that some pumpkins are natives of N.
The enlarged form of the stigmas, and their sessile position on the summit of the ovary, must be considered as important characters, and were used by Gasparini to separate certain pumpkins as a distinct genus; but Naudin says (p.
We can put pumpkins and cabbages down below, and apples and potatoes in the upper shelves, and trail vines over them all.
Of vegetables they were not destitute; potatoes, corn, beans, and pumpkins they had in abundance since fall set in, if not before.
The pumpkins were planted in between the hills of corn.
Soon after the pumpkins began to come up the boys noticed one morning that the leaves had been eaten.
Plant the pumpkins in between the hills of corn and let the squashes go in some other part of the garden.
On, on, they went, until they had approached a fortified town of the enemy, surrounded by plowed fields, in which were pumpkins and stalks of corn.
After trading with the red men, who brought Indian corn, pumpkins and tobacco to the ship, the Half Moon was again steered up-stream, until the water was found to be very shoal.
The rosy apples and goldenpumpkins were ripe, and the farmers were bringing them into the markets.
But nature is merciful as well as sportive, and while she amuses herself by creating pumpkins of formidable aspect, takes care that the core shall not always correspond to the rind.
Strong-visaged women are often pure pumpkins with a very rough and corrugated outside.
But he is a very weak imitation of the old fire-eater; and, on the whole, this special family of the pumpkins has dwindled into insignificance, and their place knows them no more.
Intellectual pumpkins are as common as those of the more specially physical kind.
Now that duelling has gone out of fashion, and discharged captains who have signalized themselves in war are rare, our old swashbuckler type of pumpkins has gone out both in fact and fiction, on the stage and off it.
Poets too, with a knack for turning out large moulds in which they have run very small ideas, are pumpkinsdear to the feminine mind.
Pumpkins are among the most imposing of all groundling growths.
Some of the dark-skinned races look the very ideal of the melodramatic ruffian--operatic brigands painted with broad black lines, and up to any amount of deeds of daring and of crime; but they are only pumpkins at the core.
In another Greek story a dervish tells a queen that she will have three sons, that at the birth of each she must plant a pumpkin in the garden, and that in the fruit borne by the pumpkins will reside the strength of the children.
In due time the infants are born and the pumpkins planted.
As the children grow up the pumpkins grow with them.
Put the pumpkinson the bottom of the car, Roger, and the jacks on top of them.
The pumpkins are in the barn," Mr. Emerson called after him.
I stopped to tell you that those pumpkins are ready for you.
The reason he grew so many pumpkins was in order that he might change his head as often as it became wrinkled or threatened to spoil.
The farm was one vast pumpkin field, and some of the pumpkins were of enormous size.
One reason is that were I to eat pumpkins I would become a cannibal, and the other reason is that I never eat, not being hollow inside.
On the Coast of Coromandel Where the early pumpkins blow, In the middle of the woods Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò.
Sitting where the pumpkins blow, Will you come and be my wife?
Down the slippery slopes of Myrtle, Where the early pumpkins blow, To the calm and silent sea Fled the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò.
I adopted the utmost docility, and, never letting him suspect my purpose, contrived to regain the place where I had laid the pumpkins in the sun.
At length I took him to the spot where I had laid my pumpkins in the sun, and then, laughing and dancing again, signed to him that they contained pure wine.
It chanced that, one day, while I was being goaded about the island, we came upon a place where pumpkins grew.
So I unsealed one of the pumpkins and handed it to him, whereupon he drank and smacked his lips.
The same moon that had looked down on Cinderella's pumpkinsnow shone upon the king's palace and the royal gardens.
But their pumpkins broke or stayed on the ground below where they had fallen (it was no longer Halloween, remember).
They had permission to go to the gardener and get just what seeds they wanted; so some of the boys planted melons and cucumbers, and some pumpkins and radishes, and two of them made an elegant flower-garden.
They ate pumpkin-pie, made with their own pumpkins, and thought them the most delicious pumpkins that ever grew; and their melons were the sweetest melons they ever tasted in all their lives.
They are pumpkins or cucumbers or melons, and the whole front fence is lined with them!
I am intending to enter my two mammoth pumpkinsand that Hubbard squash, along with my corn.
Those two big ones Mrs. Grinnell is going to tote along with her pumpkins to the Fair, and the little ones and the crooked fellers we'll eat at home; but there are twenty-one nice ones to sell.
A young lady ran out between the roses and chrysanthemums in the garden and by the red wall where yellowpumpkins were sunning, to welcome him.
We had two pumpkins freshly roasted, which would remain sweet a long while; the full half of a small cheese, a pat of butter as a luxury, and much else which I cannot well call to mind.
Frijoles and pumpkins were also obtained, delicacies of no common order.
VIII Down the slippery slopes of Myrtle, Where the early pumpkins blow, To the calm and silent sea Fled the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo.
II Once, among the Bong-trees walking Where the early pumpkins blow, To a little heap of stones Came the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo.
For a space, a field of buckwheat standing in ricks struck a smudged negroid note, but there was warmth in the apple orchards which clustered about the scattered houses, with piles of golden pumpkins and red apples under the trees.
Golden pumpkins and squashes, heaped in the angle of a house, till they reach the lower windows.
A man in a field across the road was gathering yellow pumpkins and loading them into a cart.
Joel himself had several acres of pumpkins ready for harvesting, and ordinarily he would have been interested in the quantity and quality of this farmer's product, but there were graver things on his mind now.
The plants grew well and bore plenty of fruit: but when the pumpkins were ripe, a jackal found them out and went every night and feasted on them.
One summer he planted a field of pumpkins on the sandy bed of a river.
When the crop was quite ripe the monkey boy gathered all the pumpkinsand got sufficient rice from them to last for the whole year.
The brothers ploughed and sowed and used to go daily to watch the growing crop, and one day they went to have a look at the monkey boy's crop and they saw that it was pumpkins and not rice and they laughed at him.
Yet I saw as good pumpkins fully developed both here and at Dunvegan as one would wish for.
I was creditably informed that pumpkins and muskmelons had frequently ripened at this establishment.
He pointed out that where cucumbers and melons grow pumpkins will grow also.
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