WM. HENRY MAULE, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Vegetable Seeds — 39 



THE DAVIS PERFECT CUCUMBER. 



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The Davis Perfect Cucumber 



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. 



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. He has at last suc- 

 ceeded in perfecting a cucumber that beats anything I have 

 ever seen. The Davis Perfect has become the most 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. Eating qualities* surpass anything 1 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 

 I 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 diflerence, 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 it is. I predict the greatest sale any 

 cucumber novelty has ever had for the 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, lO cents; ounce, 15 cents; quarter pound; 40 cents; pound, $1.50, postpaid. 



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Klondike Cucumber 



Excellent strain of White 

 Spine, remarkable for the 

 uniformly dark green skin • 

 of its shapely fruits. Its 

 good qualities are its ex- 

 treme earliness and pro- » 

 lificness. Very hardy re- 

 sisting unfavorable weath- 

 er conditions; and is a good 

 size for slicing. It is also 

 quite firm when small and 

 is excellent for pickling. 

 A most prolific sort. Popu- 

 lar with Southern planters 

 who find a ready market 

 for it in the North. 



Packet, 5c.; ounce, lOc; 

 } pound, 30c.; pound, $1.00. 



