The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-06
NEW VEGETABLES TO BE DISPLAYED
Seed of Inbred Squash to Feature Windsor Field
 Day, August II

Seed from a superior variety of inbred squash, developed at the ment Station at New Haven, has been sent to an alfalfa district in the west where no squash is grown in the hope that quantity of pure seed may be produced. This squash will be one of the outstanding eX- hibits of the Late Veletable Field Day to be held at the Tobacco Sub station at Windsor on August II at 2:00 o'clock. Along with new hybrid peppers, also developed at the station, it will attract wide at tention of growers. Other show crops include sweet corn, tomatoes, rust-resistant pole beans, soy beans, and sweet potatoes, and at the same time farmers may judge the comparative values of different kinds of fertilizers used in growing mid-season vegetables by noting the development in the soils plots.
 Donald F. Jones, Lawrence Cur tis, and W. Ralph Singleton of the plant breeding department
 plant breeding department, and NJ. F. Morgan and H. G. M. Jacobson of the soils department, will ex- plain the exhibits.
 The new squash has been de- veloped by the process of selecting plants of finest characteristics and inbreeding them season after sea- son. In Connecticut it is difficult to produce pure seed in field grown squash, Mir. Curtis explains. Insects and wind bring pollen from infer for varieties, and 1t is believed that squash will even cross with pump kin. That is why some odd shapes and colors crop out in plants from seed grown in the open field. For that reason the greatest care has been taken in inbreeding the Wind sor plants, says Mir. Curtis. Pollin- ation is done by hand and the bIos- sons are securely covered with paper bags as soon as they are fer tilizcd. Seed produced in this way has been planted for five success sive years and each season brings the same fine fruits.
 Although the new plants appear somewhat dwarfed when compared with the original strains from which they were developed, they yield an abundance of light-coloreG uniform, smooth-skinned fruits with tapering necks, earlier thar | the commercial varieties. It is hoped that growing the seed in tho west where there is no other pol | len to contaminate the plants ma, solve the problem of producing th.i seed in quantities without the ne cessity of hand pollination ant paper bags.
 Planted in section of the gar den set aside for pepper trials arr about 50 different hybrids also de veloped by MT. Curtis. Next t, them grow the standard commer cial varieties, including the origina parent plants from which the hy brids came, so that relative quail ties may be compared.
 The new hybrids resulted iron crosses between California Won der and a natural hytcid between Sweet Spanish peppers and Harri Early Giant. For four years nov these peppers have been showini excellent qualities. A month be fore field day two or three fruit on each were ready for picking while fruit on commercial strain grown under similar conditions wa still very small. From the 50 od' hybrids now growing selections O the best will be made for furthe tests next season. Some of thes will be crossed again with Califor mia Wonder, Mir. Curtis states.