Gourd Pies Some American visitors to one of London's best-knoWn
hotels dem ded squash pie. After a great hue and cry the caterers found a srr holder who had grown a good crop of pumpkins, and a seducti‘e was served and approved. Now in England, it seems, squash pie is ar: to mean gourd pie. Squash is taken as a generally descriptive word one might talk of a mash. In America, as I am reminded by a welcome letter from British Columbia, squash is a strictly bola word. Squash pie has no relationship to pumpkin Die or the vegel marrow pie, that my household consumed with satisfaction as late a` last week of March. It was new to me that the squash will grow le open in middle England, and I shall attempt to grow it from seeds In sent from British Columbia. We certainly ought to grow more pump in this country. They are an agreeable variant on the marrow, of whl incidentally, the white are better flavoured than the green variety, tho less popular. Incidentally an English acquaintance, famous as a rac player, once offered an American sporting editor an article on squash. idea was rejected on the ground that squash was a vegetable. The " seems to be a troublesome one.
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