Cucurbita maxima.

(aka Pike’s Peak) 

Introduced by Hiram Sibley & Co. of Rochester, New York in 1888. 

Superb banana squash with thick sweet flesh. 

James J. H. Gregory found it simply “magnificent.” 

Winner of the SSE staff taste test in 2014. 

Hard-rinded, inversely pear shaped, excellent keeper. 

110 days.