The striped beetle is an inveterate pest on cucumbers and squashes (see page 201).
The summer squashes rarely fail of a crop if they once escape the scourge of the striped beetle.
Plant earlysquashes as a trap-crop around the field.
Plant a few early squashes between the rows of the late varieties as a trap-crop.
Hubbards and summer squashes may be started on sods in the hotbed.
For summer use, the Crooknecks and Scallop squashesare popular.
In growing winter squashes in a Northern climate, it is essential that the plants start off quickly and vigorously: a little chemical fertilizer will help.
I do not care to be seen much with the squashes or the dead-beets.
Put squashes into saucepan and add to each cup of them, 2 tablespoons cream and 1/2 tablespoon Crisco.
July 3 Roast Lamb New Potatoes Green Peas *Summer Squash Watercress and Cucumber Salad Coffee Ice Cream Lady Fingers *Summer Squash--Cut summer squashesinto small pieces and boil till tender in salted water.
The pauper squashes and cabbages must have been at a premium, in Leadenhall Market.
The writer has produced, from the same parent, squashes so dissimilar, through the simple agency of a change of soil in one season, that they might readily be taken for distinct varieties.
We are going to get some beans and late squashes from the Indians, and bake some corn bread, and have a regular old-fashioned Connecticut supper!
At first they had occasionally secured beans and squashes from the Indians, but the improvident savages soon exhausted their supplies and were themselves dependent on corn and game.
Take 3 small summer squashes and 3 ears of corn; chop the squashes and cut the corn from the cobs.
The very inside of squashes is soft and full of seeds, and that part isn't good to eat; but just next to the seeds is the part that is good.
There were squashes and turnips and melons and corn and oats and potatoes and cabbages and onions and peas and beans.
Illustration] Then Aunt Deborah made some squash pies, and put in on the dough that was on the bottom of the plates some of the inside of squashes that she had cooked over the fire.
On the one hand was a hill of corn, on the other a large squash vine with three squashes on it, and three ears of corn grew apart from all the others.
The sister who guards the bean has a wreath of its velvety pods with garments of the delicate tendrils, while the spirit of squashes is clothed with the brilliant blossoms under her care.
The cafes, no longer crowded by smart people, were thinly patronised by bronzed young men in overalls, not innocent of lubricating medium, thirstily drinking ginger swizzle or sucking iced-lemon squashes through yellow straws.
Here we have plainly indicated the little gourd-like, hard-shelled, and variegated squashes that are often cultivated as ornamental plants.
As the variety keeps well, and suffers little from transportation, the squashesare generally found fresh and in good order on their arrival.
From these and similar authorities, it is evident that summer squashes were originally natives of America, where so many of them were found in use by the Indians, when the country began to be settled by Europeans.
Though generally cultivated for ornament, and considered more curious than useful, "some of them are the very best of the summer squashes for table use; far superior to either the scolloped or warted varieties.
The average yield from six acres was nearly five tons of marketable squashes to the acre.
Like the Summer Crookneck, the scolloped squashes are used while young or in a green state.
Summer-squashes are a very pleasant vegetable to be acquainted with.
It should also be said that the root of the common pumpkin and of the summer bush squashes is too fibrous and branchy for this test.
There is also a great store of good apples, considerable pitted corn, and much still standing unstacked, and several acres of squashes and pumpkins--all a temptation to the enemy.
Or those funny, pale green squashes that are scalloped all around the edge like a dish," said Marjory.
Only those squashes which are young enough to cook with the skins and seeds are suitable for stewing, as the skins and seeds contain the flavor.
Winter Squash= Winter squashes vary so much in quality that no one way of cooking will do for all.
Select the squashes that are long and thin: wash them cut them in little strips less than half an inch thick.
Put the squashes in only when the butter is beginning to brown.
We might as well drink Chablis or Pommery by the time one of these still squashes has ceased wandering, and charging itself at each station.
Then come the extras, which are different for each person: more ale for one, more hot baths for another; more carriages for one, more lemonsquashes for another.
Dawson calls them 'still' lemon squashes because they are made with water, not with soda or seltzer or vichy, but they are particularly badly named.
The round squashes may be cooked whole, but the long ones must be cut in two or three pieces, according to the size of the vessel they are to be cooked in.
She offered me some of the squashes which I accepted with thanks.
We were both in our shirt sleeves, no vests, only wore pants confined around the waist by a belt, the squashes were bobbing up and down in his shirt, as he progressed and the proprietress after him.
When the woman reached the spot where the squashes lay scattered, she stopped, looking after the fleeing individual and sending a full vocabulary of invectives after him.
Finally the squashes lifted the shirt out of his confines and down came the squashesrolling on the ground.
I who had followed leisurely caught up while she gathered her squashes into her apron.
Watch for eggs to appear on the plants and also examine for eggs on the squashes in the garden.
Later it may cluster and feed on the unripe squashes or pumpkins in such numbers as to completely cover them.
As the spring advances and the squashes start to vine watch for squash bugs on them.
They are so brightly colored that they can easily be seen and most boys and girls have seen them on the leaves ofsquashes or pumpkins.
As we rode up the draw, we skirted a big melon patch, and a garden where squashes and yellow cucumbers lay about on the sod.
We were glad to go in and get warm by his kitchen stove and to see his squashes and Christmas melons, heaped in the storeroom for winter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "squashes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
