
259 Burpee 
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We’d like nothing better than to claim this 
outstanding breeding achievement for our own. 
It is the kind of advancement in the seed world 
that changes the whole growing procedure as 
radically and as wonderfully as hybrid corn has 
changed the growing of our nation’s corn crop. 
But this new hybrid cucumber was bred by 
Burpee, and is such a great stride forward that 
we are glad to acknowledge its origin, and to 
present it enthusiastically to our customers. 
The remarkable thing about the Burpee Hy- 
brid cucumber is the fact that it is resistant to 
the diseases which have plagued cucumber 
growers for many years. There are three prin- 
cipal cucumber diseases—bacterial wilt, downy 
mildew, and mosaic. When your vines shrivel 
and die rapidly and disastrously at an early age, 
or just as they are beginning to bear, one of 
these three diseases is most likely the cause. It 
has been astonishing even to breeders whose 
stock in trade is plant miracles to see what a 
decisive comparison exists between this new 
hybrid and all other commercial varieties. The 
plants remain green and producing long after 
all others are dead. In a field of cucumber trials 
nothing could be more impressive than to look 
across the rows on September landsee desolation 
and death everywhere except for those rows of 
lush green foliage where the hybrid cucumber still 
grew freely and without hindrance from disease. 
730 Fordhook Hybrid Tomato 
Every seed from a hand pollinated fruit (60 days) 
Introduced in 1945, this new tomato is another hybrid, setting 
a new standard of excellence for this vegetable. The magic vigor 
of first generation hybrid plants makes new things possible in 
familiar crops. Fordhook Hybrid is early, in season with 
Earliana, and yet it is much better quality, more nearly round 
in shape, and vastly more prolific. It yields more fruits than any 
standard variety on the market, regardless of maturity. These 
fruits are red, weigh about 5 oz., and have a good interior. The 
plants grow 2 ft. high and spread as much as 5 ft., providing a 
luxuriant growth of foliage to protect the fruits. A considerable 
degree of wilt resistance makes this the first really early tomato 
with the resistant characteristic. Because this seed must always 
be produced painstakingly by hand pollination, the amount 
available is small. Order early to avoid disappointment. 
In packets only. Pkt. (30 seeds) 25¢. 
2 MAULE BRINGS YOU NEW VARIETIES 
It is perfectly true that this hybrid will even- 
tually succumb to disease, but under most con- 
ditions you can expect a month additional pro- 
duction from these resistant plants. This is 
often the means of doubling, tripling, or quad- 
rupling your crop, or even of harvesting a good 
crop where absolutely none could be grown of 
ordinary cucumbers. 
We have seen these facts repeated three suc- 
cessive years in our trials, and we have reports 
from experiment stations in all parts of the 
country which wholly substantiate our own 
observations. 
This cucumber is of the white spine, slicing 
type, grows 8 in. long and 2% in. thick. It is of 
excellent type and quality, being blunt at both 
ends, and of a fine, dark green color. First fruits 
may be harvested in about 60 days from plant- 
ing, and we feel sure that you who plant this 
great, new cucumber will find that you have a 
multitude of fruits to pickle and to give to your 
neighbors long after their own vines have 
withered. 
Burpee Hybrid cucumber carries our highest 
recommendation, and we are sorry that the 
intricate production problems connected with 
this seed crop make it impossible for either the 
producers or ourselves to offer it in larger than 
packet quantities this year. 
Pkt. (30 seeds) 25¢. 

