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BURBANK'S 1918 NEW CREATIONS IN SEEDS 
A New Creation in Corn— "Sorghum Pop" 
Our common corn, Zea Mays, has shown a wonderful adaptability to various 
soils and climates and also to the various uses for which it is grown, much more 
so than any other grass or grain. Next to it in variability are the Sorghums, 
which include the various Kaffir corns, broom corns, and annual sugar canes. 
These are two very distinct species, one of which is a native of Africa, the other 
of America, and there is no record of any new variety having been produced 
by crossing. Five years ago, after numerous trials, a few kernels were produced 
on an ear of Burpee's improved Stowell's Evergreen Sweet Corn, from pollen 
of the white "goose neck" Kaffir Corn. These precious kernels were carefully 
planted one by one the next season and all but two were Stowell's Evergreen 
to all intents and purposes, but two ripened weeks earlier and were almost true 
Kaffir corns with compact, crooked, drooping "heads," containing many scattering 
hard, round kernels, also bearing "goose neck" drooping ears, somewhat resem- 
bling popcorn. The next season all were planted and a new corn, in many 
respects resembling white rice popcorn, but with more nearly globular kernels 
was produced, but the ears were branched or "many fingered" and bore kernels, 
SORGHUM POP 
not only on the outside, but on the inside of the ears, producing an enormous 
number of kernels to the cluster. As the cobs had to be crushed to obtain the 
corn, selections were made of short "stubby" ears which bore kernels only on 
the outside. 
We now offer this most wonderful corn, and you will find it early, quite 
uniform, a superior yielder, and one of the best popping corns known. It pops 
out pure white, sweet, and with a whirlwind vehemence. This amazing produc- 
tion is of great interest, not only to growers, but also to botanists. 
Packet of 100 seeds, 25c; ounce, 75c; pound, $4. 
A New Hybrid Cucumber — "Iceland" 
The "Lemon" Cucumber, a native of Central America, is a quite distinct species 
from the common long green cucumbers so universally grown. It is small and 
not a good form for slicing, yet the quality is so superior that it is grown more 
and more extensively each season for home use. By crossing this species with 
Burpee's long snow-white cucumber, sent out a few years ago, a. new and wholly 
distinct strain has been produced, which surpasses all other cucumbers in crisp- 
ness and delicacy of flavor and is of very large size and astonishingly productive. 
In the combination of these good qualities it is unequaled by any other cucumber. 
You will probably have more fun raising and eating these cucumbers 'than 
anything else in the garden. 
Price per packet of one hundred seeds, 25c: three packets, 60c. 
