Fresh or Pickled—Home or Market—Hardie Offers These as Best 
Hardie’s Superior Cucumbers 
CULTURE—Cucumbers should not be 
planted until the ground gets warm, unless 
you are prepared to protect them during the 
cold storms. Plant in hills 6 feet apart each 
way, enrich the hills with a quantity of 
decomposed manure or commercial ferti¬ 
lizer ; scatter 8 or 10 seeds on each hill, 
cover one-inch deep and press the soil firmly 
over them ; thin out to three or four plants 
to the hill; never allow any of the fruits to 
ripen on the vine, as they will cease setting 
fruit as soon as seed commences to mature. 
Requires one ounce to 60 hills, about 1 % 
pounds per acre. 
FOR MOST “CUKES” PER VINE 
Longfellow 
182— EARLY FRAME or SHORT GREEN—Fine for table or 
pickling. One of the best for forcing. Medium sized, straight 
and handsome. Very productive. Pkt. 5c; oz. 10c; Vi lb. 
30c; lb. $1.00; postpaid. 
183— EARLY GREEN CLUSTER—Fruits of slim form are 
desirable for pickling. It is extra prolific, frequently setting 
in clusters of two or three. These 
are desirable for small pickles. Pkt. 
5c; oz. 10c; Vi lb. 30c; lb. $1.00; 
postpaid. 
184— HARDIE’S SPECIAL —Very 
dark green in color, medium size 
and most prolific, a wonderful va¬ 
riety for shipping to nearby or 
distant markets. One of the best 
features of this cucumber is the 
fact that it will not turn yellow 
after being pulled. A true ever¬ 
green cucumber of the white spine 
type. Pkt. 5c; oz. 10c; V4 lb. 30c; 
lb. $1.00; postpaid. 
180—BOSTON PICKLING—A very 
prolific cucumber, largely planted 
for pickles. Fruits average 4 to 
6 inches in length when large enough for slicing, and are of 
excellent quality. For producing medium-sized pickles is highly 
esteemed, as it is enormously productive, and if the fruits are 
kept gathered as soon as large enough, the vines will con¬ 
tinue bearing throughout a long season. Pkt. 5c; oz. 10c; 
*4 lb. 30c; lb. $1.00; postpaid. 
190—SMALL GHERKIN (For Pickles)—A very small, oval, 
prickly variety quite distinct from all others and grown ex¬ 
clusively for pickles. The smallest of all the varieties and 
should always be picked when young and tender. Pkt. 10c; 
oz. 20c; 14 lb. 65c; postpaid. 
187—JAPANESE CLIMBING—Throws out strong, grasping 
tendrils, enabling it to climb poles or trellises in the same man¬ 
ner as Pole Lima Beans, thus keeping the fruits off the ground ; 
very productive. Pkt. 5c; oz. 10c; 14 lb. 30c; lb. $1.00; 
postpaid. 
189—LONGFELLOW—Desirable for home or market garden, 
also a good shipper. Fruits uniform, straight, dark green over 
entire surface and attractive, retaining color well after pick¬ 
ing. Pkt. 10c; oz. 20c; Vi lb. 50c; lb. $1.50; postpaid. 
185—IMPROVED EARLY WHITE SPINE—A good variety of 
medium size, light green color, with white spine, a good kind 
for shipping. Pkt. 5c; oz. 10c; V4 lb. 30c; lb. $1.00; postpaid. 
186—IMPROVED LONG GREEN—Produced by selection from 
the Long Green. Vines vigorous and productive, forming fruit 
fit for the table nearly as early as the shorter sorts ; fruits 
about 12 inches long, firm and crisp. The young fruit makes 
excellent pickles, and when ripe is the best for sweet pickles. 
We offer a carefully selected strain, uniformly long and of good 
form. Pkt. 5c; oz. 10c; V4 lb. 30c; lb. $1.00; postpaid. 
181—DAVIS’ PERFECT—One of the very best for quality, 
shape color and productiveness and is a fine shipper. Color a 
dark glossy green, uniform and regular in size, and as a slicing 
cucumber one of the best, being crisp and tender. Pkt. 5c; 
oz. 10c; V4 lb. 30c; lb. $1.00; postpaid. 
188—KLONDIKE—An extra fine new strain of white spine, 
exceedingly well suited to the South. For flavor, uniform 
size and productiveness it can not be surpassed. Wherever it 
has been tried by Southern planters it has become their main 
crop. Very prolific, very early, very hardy. A splendid shipper. 
Pkt. 5c; oz. 10c; V4 lb. 30c; lb. $1.00; postpaid. 
Klondike 
Davis Perfect 
Laraa, Ill. 
David Hardie Seed Co., 
Dallas, Texas. 
Friends : 
The seeds I bought from 
you folks last spring proved 
out fine. The Hardie’s garden 
we had this year has beyond 
any doubt proved out to be 
the best garden we have had 
in 16 years. 
Those 2 small packages 
of cotton seeds you folks 
sent us were a sure treat for 
the neighborhood from the 
time it started to grow till 
fall. Thanks for them. 
Your new customer, 
FRANK BOHLANDER. 
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DAVID HARDIE SEED COMPANY 
