THE MAULE SEED BOOK FOR 1906 
The New| 
THE NEW DAVIS PERFECT CUCUMBER. 
vis Perfect Cucumber 
A REVELATION TO EVERY GROWER. 
Plant the Davis Perfect, and you will raise in the open 
ground, cucumbers that will sell in any market at same 
price as the high priced hot house forcing cucumbers. 
There is no question in my mind that the Davis Perfect 
Cucumber is the sensational vegetable novelty for 1906. 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, 
second to none. 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 
as handsome in appearance and sell as well grown in 
the ordinary way in the open ground. 
ever seen; Davis Perfect is bound to become the 
popular cucumber *both for forcing under glass and growing 
outside, for the following reasons: 
First. It has an ideal shape, and the handsomest color of 
all cucumbers. 
Second. It is a type of the most perfect size. 
Third. its eating qualities surpass anything I have ever | 
tried. 
Fourth. It is almost seedless one-third of its length from 
the stem end, and the seeds that are contained in it 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 
Packet of 50 seeds, 20 cents; 3 packets, 50 cents. 
He has at last suc- | 
ceeded in perfecting a cucumber that beats anything I have) 
most | 
anything he has ever tried, and other growers in Grand 
Rapids are of the same opinion. 
introduced, and it is bound to become popular everywhere 
open ground. It will be a big money maker for anyone 
cucumber on the market. 
gotten $1.00 per bushel for his entire crop, but he preferred to 
/had near the house, and for which he got $1.00 a bushel, both 
| 40 to 50 cents. 
Mr. Davis wanted him to ship them in large quantities, as 
large the quantity, but as stated, Mr. Davis preferred to 
save them for seed. It stands to reason a cucumber that 
ean be grown outdoors and resembles 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. 
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been very good, he is frank in saying that his cucumber beats || 
The facts boiled down are | 
simply these: I believe this is the greatest cucumber ever | 
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) 
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 | 
Last year Mr. Davis could have] 
| save them for seed, with the exception of a little patch he} 
in the Grand Rapids market and Chicago, at the same time | 
the best of the other outdoor grown cucumbers were bringing | 
The dealers who handled these cucumbers for | 
they could sell at $1.00 all he could send them, no matter how | 
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