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RICHARD FROTSCHER’S ALMANAC AND GARDEN MANUAL 
Improved Early White Spine. 
This is the most popular variety. It is 
of medium size, light green, covered 
with white spines, and turns white when 
ripe. The best kind for shipping. Of 
late years it is used by most gardeners 
for forcing as well as outdoor culture. 
It is very productive. 
Early Frame. Another early va- 
riety, but not so popular as the fore- 
going kind. It is deep green in color, 
but turns yellow very quickly; there- 
fore gardeners do not plant it much. 
Long Green Burkey. A long va- 
riety aitaining a length of from fifteen 
to eighteen inches when well grown. 
Very fine and productive. 
Early Cluster. Early, short and 
prickly; it bears in clusters. 
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West India Gherkin. 
Long Green White Spine or 
New Orleans Market. Thisis a va- 
riety selected from an imported foreing 
cucumber introduced by me. Itis good 
for forcing or open ground; very pro- 
ductive, keeps its green color, and has 
few vines. This kind can not be ex- 
celled for shipping, as it produces very 
perfect cucumbers and but few culls; 
the largest growers of cucumbers for 
shipping about here plant none but this 
variety. It is quite different from the 
Long White Spine offered by some. 
West India Gherkin. This is an 
oval variety, sinall in size. It is used 
for pickling when young and tender. 
When grown to its full size it can be 
stewed with meat. In fact, this is the 
only use made of it about New Orleans. 
Early Cluster. 
