"...Gourds are grown as garden novelties for their strange and wonderful shapes and as craft material. The smallest can be the size of a marble and the largest a 200-pound armful. A household necessity since prehistory, gourds still are used today. Many growers raise birdhouse gourds as homes for purple martins, colorful ornamentals decorate our Thanksgiving tables, and luffa sponges are popular bath time buddies. What U.S. gourd growers call gourds are three different plants. All are cousins of squash, some closer kin than others..."
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