CUCUMBERS 



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for one-third or more the length of the fruit. Tubercles few, rather 

 obscure. Spines white. Flesh medium thick to moderately thin, 

 greenish white in color. Seed mass large and rather loose. 



Barteldes. Ref. 22. 



The Barteldes cucumber which was given an Award 

 of Merit in the All America vegetable selections for 1934 

 was introduced in 1925 by Barteldes Seed Co., Lawrence, 

 Kansas. It was introduced as a very dark green shipping 

 cucumber and in the middle western states is considered 

 a superior variety. The fruits are much like those of 

 Longfellow, but are slightly plumper, more uniformly 

 rounded at the ends, slightly less warty and distinctly 

 more speckled with yellowish green; and the flesh 

 whiter. 



Fruit long and moderately plump, 10-12 x 2'2~3 inches. 

 Shape nearly cylindrical, straight, medial very slightly swollen, 

 rounded at the base and apex. Surface very smooth even at the 

 pickling stages. Cross-section circular in all parts. Color very 

 dark green, speckled over the entire surface with pale yellowish 

 green specks; tip stripes rather narrow and obscure, extending not 

 more than one-quarter the length of the fruit. Tubercles very few, 

 practically absent. Spines white. Flesh thick and white in color. 

 Seed mass small and solid. 



Boston Pickling. Refs. 3, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 



21, 29, 48, 49, 52, 53, 56, 57, 58, 60, 62, 63, 64, 

 65, 75, 79, 81, 82. Syns. Boston Pickle, Early 

 Green Prolific, Extra Early Green Prolific, Extra 

 Early Prolific, Extra Green Prolific Pickling, 

 Extra Long Green Prolific, Green Prolific, Green 

 Prolific Pickling, Improved Extra Early Green 

 Prolific, Short Green Pickling, Short Pickling, 

 Short Prolific, Short Prolific Pickle, Short Pro- 

 lific Pickling. 



The name Boston Pickling seems to have been first 

 used about 1880. In the 1885 catalog of W. W. Rawson 

 & Co. of Boston, the variety is listed as Boston Pick- 

 ling (True Lincoln stock) (American Gherkin). The 

 origin is unknown. Present day stocks are considered 

 to be darker green than most pickling sorts, are more 

 slender and lack the thickened base or shoulder present 

 in Chicago Pickling. 



Fruit moderately short and medium plump, 6-7 x 2 1 _i— 2 ' i 

 inches. Shape long oval, nearly cylindrical, straight, medial 

 slightly swollen, base and apex rounded. Cross-section circular near 

 base, triangular at medial and apex. Color moderately dark green, 

 tinted lighter at extreme apex: tip stripes rather prominent, extend 

 one-half the length of fruit. Tubercles moderately many but not 

 very prominent. Spines black. Flesh moderately thin and very 

 white in color. Seed mass moderately large, and has small tri- 

 angular cavity. 



Pickles unevenly fusiform, with taper towards apex much 

 longer than that towards base; moderately dark green in color, 

 slightly lighter at extreme apex. 



< lapitol. 



Luther Burbank crossed the Lemon cucumber with 

 Burpee's Long Snow-White and secured a new form which 

 he listed as Iceland in 1917. In his catalog for 1923, 

 another selection, Capitol, " with fruits exactly like Ice- 

 land in every respect except color which is bright green " 



was introduced. This was apparently a segregate of the 

 second generation from the same cross. Stocks grown 

 at Geneva have shown this variety to be much like 

 Lemon in size and form, but green in skin color. Appar- 

 ently little publicity was given this sort, for it is not 

 listed in other seedsmen's catalogs. 



Chicago Pickling. Refs. 3, 6, 13, 20, 21, 22, 29, 48, 



49, 57, 61, 63, 64, 66, 75, 79. Syns. Improved 

 Chicago Pickle, Westerfield, Westerfield Chicago 

 Pickling, Westerfield Pickling. 

 This variety was first listed in 1888 by D. M. 

 Ferry 8b Co. of Detroit, Michigan. It was probably 

 developed in the vicinity of Chicago as it has been a 

 favorite in that section for many years. Vaughan Seed 

 Store of Chicago in 1897 introduced a very excellent 

 strain which they named the Westerfield Chicago Pickle 

 for a gardener who made special selections for the pickle 

 trade. This is one of the four leading sorts grown in 

 most of the pickle growing regions. The fruits are some- 

 what lighter green than Boston Pickling and have a 

 more prominent and distinctly rounded base or shoulder. 

 It is especially well adapted for use as dill pickles. 



Fruit short and moderately slender, 5-6 x 2-2)4 inches. 

 Shape unevenly fusiform, abruptly tapered at base, gradually 

 tapered towards apex, slightly swollen near medial. Cross-section 

 circular at base, distinctly triangular at medial and apex. Color 

 medium green, tinted with yellow at the apex and rather promi- 

 nently striped for one-half the length of the fruit. Tubercles 

 moderately prominent. Spines black. Flesh moderately thin, 

 greenish white in color. Seed mass moderately large and solid. 



Pickles distinctly tapered from base to apex; base large, 

 rounded. Color moderately dark green, considerably lighter at 

 medial and apex. 



China Long. Refs. 3, 4, 6, 16, 17, 19, 22, 57, 58, 64, 

 75, 79. Syns. Chicago Giant, China, Chinese, 

 Chinese Evergreen, Chinese Long Green, Early 

 Chinese, Great Giant, Jumbo, Long China, Long 

 Green China, Long Green Chinese, Shumway's 

 Giant, Very Long Green Chinese. 



The names given above and those listed under the 

 variety name Chinese Three Feet represent a form which 

 differs noticeably in both fruit and foliage from the 

 so-called American cucumbers. As early as 1862 in the 

 catalog of James Vick's Seeds, Rochester, New York, we 

 find the variety name Chinese Long Green, and over 

 thirty -two years later the name Chinese Long Remaining 

 Green was noted in the catalog of Henry Dreer of Phila- 

 delphia. The type was listed as " China " in 1921 by 

 Harris, and later by Burrell, Henderson, Burgess and 

 others. Inasmuch as the variety has not been con- 

 sidered as a standard commercial sort, but more as a 

 novelty, there has been some mixture of stocks. The 

 descriptions given below and under Chinese Three Feet 

 represent two distinct types. The variety names associ- 

 ated with them have not always been consistent, and 

 further trial will be necessary to establish more exactly 

 the synonomy of the two varieties. The fruits of this 

 type are considerably shorter than Chinese Three Feet, 

 distinctly more angular in cross-section, darker green in 

 skin color and distinctly more warted. 



