“Sure feel the frost on my punkins,” quoth Charlie Farquharson in his Allmynack
Some would say that Charlie, Don Harron’s alter ego, was out of his gourd. And technically, all would be correct. Although the Cucurbitaceae are something of a taxonomist’s nightmare, sexually profligate and happily crossbreeding at the drop of a stamen, botanists are on the whole agreed to certain divisions, thus: