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Squashes, like pumpkins, are good sources of carotenoids.

From Time Magazine Archive

Squashes, for their part, provide an array of vitamins; avocados, fats.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Squashes, gourds, peppers, and chupandilla plums were among the initial crops.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Squashes and pumpkins planted near each other mix badly, and the poorer will prevail.

From Soil Culture by Walden, J. H.

Wheat sown in June produced 30 bushels to the acre; Oats did as well; while Potatoes, Beets, Turnips, Squashes, Cabbages, etc., yielded bounteously; Tomatoes did likewise, but the plants were obtained from Denver.

From What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science by Greeley, Horace