Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon
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    • Just Another Squash: 12,000 BCE to 1600
    • From Pumpkin Beer to Pumpkin Pie: 1600 to 1799
    • The Making of a Rural New England Icon: 1800 to 1860
    • The Pumpkin and the Nation: 1861 to 1899
    • Americans Celebrate the Fall Harvest with Pumpkins: 1900 to 1945
    • The Changing Nature of Pumpkins: 1946 to the Present
    • The Changing Nature of American Rural Economies: 1946 to the Present
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A page from the Gurney’s Seed and Nursery Company, 1998 Spring Catalog, Yankton, S.D. 

Ornamental Pumpkins 

At the turn of the twenty-first century, producers now breed pumpkins to fit the vegetable's romantic imagery and its use for display at the sacrifice of the plant’s fertility and palatability.  The Hybrid Frosty and Bush Hybrid Spirit, for example, produce seeds that cannot be replanted, but their fruits are symmetrical to make them attractive ornaments. 


 

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