12—Vegetable Seed Novelties 
THE NEW DAVIS PERFECT CUCUMBER. 
THE MAULE SEED BOOK FOR 1908 
The New Davis Perfect Cucumber 
Plant the Davis Perfect, and you will raise in the open 
eround, cucumbers that will sell in any market at same 
price as the high priced hot house forcing cucumbers. 
Mr. Davis needs no introduction; as the originator of the 
Davis Wax Bean and Grand Rapids Forcing Lettuce, he has 
a reputation as a market gardener for knowing what is what, | 
Mr. Davis has for years been forcing cucum- | 
bers under glass for the Chicago and Detroit markets, and it 
has been his ambition to produce a cucumber that would be | 
second to none. 
as handsome in appearance and sell as well grown in 
the ordinary way in the open ground. He has at last suc- 
ceeded in perfecting a cucumber that beats anything I have 
ever seen; Davis Perfect is bound to become the most 
popular cucumber both for forcing under glass and growing 
outside, for the following reasons: 
“irst. It has an ideal shape, and the handsomest color of 
all cucumbers. 
Second. It is a type of the most perfect size. 
Third. Hating qualities surpass anything I have ever tried. 
Fourth. It is almost seedless one-third of its length from 
the stem end, and the seeds when it is in slicing condition 
are so small and tender that they are unnoticed. 
Fifth. It is enormously productive, in fact, beats anything | 
T have ever tried. 
Sixth. It does not change its dark, rich color when grown 
outdoors; in fact, it resembles a hothouse cucumber so closely 
that dealers cannot tell the difference, and are willing to pay 
as much for it as the hothouse production. Mr. Davis has 
tried every strain of new cucumber that has been intro- | 
duced in the last few years; while a number of them have 
| been very good, he is frank in saying that his cucumber beats 
anything he has ever tried, and other growers in Grand 
Rapids are of the same opinion: The facts boiled down are 
simply these: I believe this is the greatest cucumber ever 
introduced, and it is bound to become popular everywhere 
when it is known. Local market gardeners in Grand Rapids, 
| Mr. Davis’ home, who make a specialty of growing cucumbers 
under glass, have tried in vain to get this seed to sow in the 
open ground. It will be a big money maker for anyone 
engaged in growing cucumbers in the open ground, for Mr. 
Davis could have sold the cucumbers represented in this seed 
crop for more than double the price of any outdoor grown 
cucumber on the market. Mr. Davis sold Davis Perfect for 
$1.00 a bushel, both in the Grand Rapids market and Chi- 
cago, at the same time the best of the other outdoor grown 
cucumbers were bringing 40 to 50. cents. The dealers who 
| handled these cucumbers for Mr. Davis wanted him to ship 
them in large quantities, as they could sell at $1.00 all he 
could send them, no matter how large the quantity. It stands 
to reason a cucumber that can be grown outdoors and resem- 
bles a hot house cucumber so closely that the trade will pay 
the same price they are paying for the hot house product is 
worth a great deal, and itis. I predict the greatest sale any 
/cucumber novelty has ever had for the new Davis Perfect, 
-and every grower, whether for home consumption or for 
market, to be abreast of the times, must plant this variety. 
| Further comment seems unnecessary. 
Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 25 cents; quarter pound, 75 cents; pound, $2.25; 5 pounds, $10.00, postpaid. 
Owing to the crowded con- 
dition of page 27 I could 
not say half as much about 
Noxall Pole Bean 
as I should have liked, so insert this note here to 
especially call your attention to Noxall, as it is far 
ahead of any other green pod pole bean known. 
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