ALNEER BROTHERS RELIABLE SEEDS, ROCKFORD, ILL. 
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Improved Early White Spine 
Evergreen White Spine 
Favorite market variety 
much used for forcing by 
market gardeners. Pkt. 5c, oz. 10 c, Vi lb. 23c, Vi lb- 40c, lb. 75c. 
An improved extra long strain 
of the White Spine. Deep green 
color and remaining green longer than others. Pkt. 5c, oz. 10c, 
lb. 23c, y 2 lb. 40c, lb. 75c. 
Westerfield’s Chicago Pickle 
A very fine good pickle variety used largely in 
Chicago pickling houses. Pkt. 5c, oz. 10 c, Vi 
lb. 23c, i / 2 lb. 40c, lb. 75c. 
Improved Long Green Ex .? i ell ? nt 
r 0 quality; fruit 
long, dark green; fine and crisp. Pkt. 5c, oz. 
10c, 1/4 lb. 28c, 1/2 lb. 50c, lb. $1.00. 
Fordhook Famous £ hi s + new extra long 
White Spine cucum¬ 
ber produces perfectly smooth, very dark green, 
handsome, straight fruit, measuring 12 to 17 
inches long. They are always solid, flesh being 
a greenish white, firm, crisp and of most de¬ 
licious flavor. It is a great cropper and fruit is 
full of flesh with but few seeds. Fruit a beauti¬ 
ful green, long and symmetrical. Pkt. 5c, oz. 
12 c, Vi lb. 32c, y 2 lb. 60c, lb. $ 1 . 00 . 
Paris Pickling Entirely distinct from all other sorts. 
. It is decidedly the best of all in quality 
for pickling. So crisp and brittle are they that they snap 
freely, and when ready for pickling show absolutely no signs 
of seeds;, the fruit is of unusually dark green color. Pkt. 5c, 
oz. 10c, 1/4 lb. 30c, y 2 lb. 55c, lb. $1.00. 
Early Cluster ^ short, early variety, growing in clus¬ 
ters. Pkt. 5c, oz. 10 c, 1/4 lb. 23c, y 2 lb. 
40c, lb. 75c. 
Green Prolific °f s f 
sorts, very uniform in growth, hardly 
ever yielding cucumbers too large for 
pickling; exceedingly productive. Pkt. 
5c, oz. 10c, V 4 lb. 23c, y 2 lb. 40c, 
lb. 75c. 
Japanese 
Climbing 
Japanese Climbing ^"et 61 being 
much more rugged in its constitution and 
less susceptible to disease than the ordi¬ 
nary cucumber, and is immensely more 
prolific, each vine producing from 25 to 
30 cucumbers, even on poor soil. The 
quality is splendid. Pkt. 5c, oz. 10 c, Vi 
lb. 30c, y 2 lb. 55c, lb. $1.00. 
Thorburn’s Everbearing 
Claimed to be the ear- 
,. , ... .. liest cucumber in culti¬ 
vation, and will continue to blossom and bear fruit the entire 
season. Good for early use and pickles. Pkt. 5 c, oz. 10 c, Vi 
lb. 23c, i / 2 lb. 40c, lb. 75c. 
PARISIAN PICKLINQ 
GOURDS 
Ornamental, fine and curious. Very valuable for covering old trees, 
fences, etc. Mixed. Pkt. 5c, oz. 12c. Vi lb. 40c. 
I nffa nr The peculiar lining of this fruit sponge-like, porous, 
L,UU “ or 1 - ,lsn Vriom toU g h elastic and ^durable, makes a natural dish 
cloth. Fruit grows about two feet long; the vine is very ornamental, with clusters 
of large yellow blossoms. Many ladies prefer this dish cloth to any other. Pkt. 5c. 
Useful and interesting. Makes desir¬ 
able buckets. Pkt. 5c, oz. 15c. 
Sugar Trough or Bucket Gourd 
True Japanese Nest Egg Gourd 
5c, oz. 15c. 
A valuable household article. Train the vine on fence or 
trellis and necks grow straight. Pkt. 5c, oz. 15c. 
Dipper Gourd 
