ALLEN'S STRAWBERRY CATALOGUE. 



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Burpee's Fordhook 

 Famous. 



sion that pleases the fancy and is freely used hy many seedsmen to get your 

 trade. The best seeds are those grown where the soil and climate conditions 

 are such as to bring the species or variety to its highest and most perfect state 

 of development. We have these conditions on the Eastern Shore of Mary- 

 land for the/growing of all vine crops. 



Burpee's Fordhook Famous (White Spine) Cucumber. Very fine 

 flavor and a beautiful long green. Vines produce an enor- 

 mous crop being of unusual vigorous growth, with laree 

 thick leaves. Perfectly smooth and VERY DARK 

 GREEN, the handsome fruit measures twelve to eigh- 

 teen inches long. They are always straight. Never 

 turn yellow, and are very solid. The flesh is a green- 

 ish white, firm, crisp, and of most delicious flavor. 

 The flesh is uausually .thick and seed space extremely 

 small. It seems to be nearly all flesh and few seeds. 

 Fordhook Famous is so very fine that I can scarcely 

 doubt that it will soon supersede many other vypes of 

 the popular long green. Gardeners every where will want this most handome 

 of all cucumbers both because they will bring an extra price on the market, 

 are of the WHITE SPINE type — long retaining their dark green color, and 

 because the vigorou t vines are so wonderfully productive. Price, 10 cents 

 pkg. ; 20 cents ounce; $1.25 3^1b; |2.00 per lb. 



Improved Arlington White Spine Cucumber. Our extra selected 



strain of this favorite type of Early White Spine is 



unsurpassed, either for forcing or the open ground. 



The cucumbers are very regular in outline, 



uniform in size, averaging eight to ten inches in 



length, straight and of a rich dark green color. 



They present the finest appearance in market, and, 



of coarse, like all of the true White Spine type, 



never turn yellow ; the light stripes, or "white 



spines" running from blossom end, only add to the 



attractive appearance of the older fruits. Flesh 



white, criep, and solid, with comparatively few 



seeds ; flavor excellent. Vines of vigorous growth 



and very productive, yielding large crops early 



and continuously. Never before did a cucumber 



leap into prominence as quickly as the Arlington 



White Spine. Originated a few years ago at the 



famous garden spot of Arlington Mass., just back 



of Boston, where there are many acres under 



glass. It rapidly became known as the finest strain 



of cucumber in cultivation. Beautiful in shape, 



color, and of the finest quality. In the United 



States the Arlington is used more, perhaps, than 



any other varitey. The field from which my seed 



were saved was the admiration and wonder of all who saw 



10 cents ounce; (50 cents % lb; $1.00 per lb 



Early Fortune Cucumber. This is a very early, wonderfully produc- 

 tive and exceedingly pretty cucumber ; in spring of 1903 I shipped quite a 

 good many of this variety to New York and though outdoor grown many of 



Improved 



Arlington 

 Spine. 



White 



5 cents pkg ; 



