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THE GRAND JUNCTION SEED CO., Grand Junction, Colorado 
Just after the frost hit the vines. Cucumbers, not watermelons 
Culture. One ounce to 50 hills; 2 to 3 pounds per acre. After danger of 
frost is past plant in hills 3 by 6 feet apart and thin to 3 plants to a hill. 
Seed can be planted in boxes or paper pots in a hotbed, but Cucumbers do 
not transplant readily unless a mass of soil adheres to the roots. Pick 
fruit as soon as large enough to use, do not allow any Cucumbers to ripen 
on the vines. 
Mountain Grown 
Cucumber 
Seed 
Crisp, Cool, Appetizing Cucum¬ 
bers can only be taken from your 
own garden. Fresh Cucumbers 
are much more crisp and tender 
and of superior flavor to those 
which you can buy at the stores; 
that peculiar toughness and bit¬ 
terness is missing. Grow your 
own, have plenty for both slicing 
and pickling. 
Most reliable seed houses sell 
Mountain Grown Cucumber Seed; 
in fact, Colorado supplies ninety 
per cent of the Cucumber seed to 
the country. The reason, to quote 
from a New York State seed cat¬ 
alog: “We grow our seed in high 
altitudes to insure not only quick 
but sure results.’’ in our West¬ 
ern Slope valleys we grow sev¬ 
eral hundred acres of Cucumbers 
for seed, most of this seed being 
for southern truck farmers and 
eastern seed houses. 
White Spine Varieties 
For slicing or shipping. White Spine types are all good shippers as they do not turn yellow. They are 
not good pickling varieties as they do not stay as solid when pickled. They are excellent for slicing. 
479 Ward’s Dark Green (Selected Stays Green). (50 
days.) Early type. It keeps green, that is, re¬ 
tains its deeper green color longer than any other 
variety. Very early and probably the most prolific 
of the White Spine types. Ward’s Dark Green is 
the result of a number of years of careful selection 
from the Kirby Staygreen or Black Diamond type. 
This continual selection has made the type, shape 
and size much more even, while retaining to the full 
extent the earliness and remarkable yield of the 
parent variety. Among the smallest slicing and 
shipping types, averaging 7 inches in length. Pkt, 
IOc; oz, 15c; *4 lb, 40c; lb, $1.25, postpaid. 
483 Improved Early White Spine. (60 days.) Early 
and productive. Cucumbers are quite uniform, 7 to 
8 inches long, well rounded at the ends, and a 
bright green color. Fine for slicing, but not as good 
a shipper as some of the newer types. Pkt, 5c; oz, 
10c; ^4 lb, 35c; lb, $1.00, postpaid. 
468 Earliest of All. (52 days.) Attractive dark green 
color, smooth and very symmetrical. Mainly used 
for early market. Length 7 inches. Pkt, 5c; oz, 
10c; 14 lb, 35c; lb, $1.00, postpaid. 
469 Straight-8. Gold Medal winner in 1935. Pri¬ 
marily bred for the shipping trade, an ideal slicing 
variety for the home. Eight straight inches of 
beautiful dark green color best describes this cu¬ 
cumber at shipping stage. Narrow, tapering but 
slightly; unusually free from tipping or striping. 
Vines vigorous and remarkably productive. Pkt, 
5c; oz, 20c; 14 lb, 50c; lb, $1.50, postpaid. 
470 Early Fortune. (58 days.) Very attractive slic¬ 
ing and shipping variety. Early, productive and 
disease resistant. Cucumbers 9 inches long, slight¬ 
ly tapering and with distinct light stripes at the 
blossom end. Flesh firm, holds up well in shipping. 
The shipping trade find our continual selection 
makes this variety very uniform. Pkt, 5c; oz, 10c; 
14 lb, 35c; lb, $1.00, postpaid. 
475 Davis Perfect. (65 days.) A beautiful slicing 
Cucumber. An excellent shipping type, fruits are 
long and very attractive. Firm white flesh and few 
seeds. Good deep green color and holds up well. 
Does fine in the open ground, although this was 
originally a greenhouse type. Davis Perfect is one 
of the varieties on which we have done particularly 
careful selection work as it is of such great value 
to the commercial gardener. Length 10 inches, 
smooth and tapering at both ends. Pkt, 5c; oz, 15c; 
14 lb, 40c; lb, $1.15, postpaid. 
476 Clark’s Special or Imperator. (60 days.) An¬ 
other award of merit variety as an outstanding 
American introduction, and is becoming very pop¬ 
ular for shipping in the southern states. Holds its 
color and firmness when shipping long distances. 
Handsome, very dark green color; slightly tapered 
at both ends; flesh crisp and firm; remains edible 
for a long time. Average a little longer than 
Straight-S. Pkt, 5c; oz, 20c; y 4 lb, 50c; lb, $1.25, 
postpaid. 
Your Garden 
will not be 
complete with¬ 
out the Ward’s 
Hark Green 
Cucumber. 
Davis Perfect 
