Maule's catalogs have style... and it is distinctive to Maule! They got more boring in the 1900s.
The last 10 blog posts have all had pumpkin pie as the theme. I am pied out, but not pumpkined out yet!
I wonder if Possum Nose pumpkin is still around somewhere. The stem is quite bumpy.
I had to look up opossum noses to see what is going on. The photo does show a lumpy nose tip on the animal...I guess that is the answer.
Later: Nope! Here is a 1886 description of the pumpkin which explains it (I think). "POSSUM NOSE PUMPKIN, Greg., '86. Fruit slightly oblate, hollowed about the stem, and terminating in a small cylindrical protuberance at the blossom end; ribs obscure, surface smooth, slightly warty; pale salmon color, with whitish stripes;
Later: Nope! Here is a 1886 description of the pumpkin which explains it (I think). "POSSUM NOSE PUMPKIN, Greg., '86. Fruit slightly oblate, hollowed about the stem, and terminating in a small cylindrical protuberance at the blossom end; ribs obscure, surface smooth, slightly warty; pale salmon color, with whitish stripes;
And, tying that into Thanksgiving, I am still thankful for the World Wide Web where 'possum noses are at my fingertips!
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