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will then remain in good condition on the plants for two months or more. If to be 
cooked they may be used in a week or so after turning black. A dozen large pack- 
ing firms could be profitably employed in canning this fruit for two or three 
months each season. Will thrive in any climate and on any soil. The berries when 
picked will keep fresh nearly a month. On rich soil plant 3x4 feet apart; on 
poor soil, 2x3 feet. The berries may be rapidly gathered on a cloth by threshing 
the plants with a light stick. The ordinary production per acre is from twenty-five 
to forty thousand pounds. Packet, 15c; ounce, 40c; pound, $3. 
Fort Bragg, Cal., Dec. 11, 1917. The Sunberries did well and were very prolific. 
We had some pies that were great. S. A. B. 
A New Teosinte (Reana Luxurians) — "Early Harvest" 
Teosinte seed has always 
sold at a very high price (fifty 
to eighty cents per pound), 
for it could only be raised in 
semi-tropical climates, and no- 
where in the United States 
except southern Florida. Yet 
it has always been known as 
a heavy producer of the best 
green feed, especially for 
silage. For the past fifty years 
I have been interested and not 
a little of the time working for 
an earlier variety, and now 
for the first time offer my 
"Early Harvest," which will 
ripen seed abundantly through- 
out most of the United States. 
"Early Harvest" has extremely 
large kernels and each one 
will produce an enormous 
amount of feed. Better try 
this new Teosinte and see 
what selective breeding has 
done for a tropical plant. 
Packet, 20c; ounce, 80c. 
A New Hybrid 
Cucumber 
"Iceland" 
The "Lemon" Cucumber, a 
A new early teosinte 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 
cucumber has been produced, which surpasses all other cucumbers in crispness 
and delicacy of flavor and is snow white, oval, medium size, and most astonish- 
ingly productive, often three hundred cucumbers to each vine. In the combination 
