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MARKET GARDENERS’ SEED STORE 
Longfellow 
CUCUMBER (Cont.) 
SLICING VARIETIES FOR OUTDOOR CULTURE 
Longfellow. An excellent, long, slender, dark green variety 
equally desirable for greenhouse forcing or out-door culture, 
and an ideal type for the private garden or as a “straight 
pack” variety for shipment to market. It measures 12 to 
Oz. 
% Lb. 
1 Lb. 
14 in. long and is fairly early. 60 days. 
Lindholm’s Ideal Market. A very attractive, long, white spined 
variety of excellent dark green color. Suitable for forcing 
$0.10 
$0.35 
$1.25 
or outdoor culture. 12x3 in. W. S. 62 days. 
Woodruff’s Ace. 1936 introduction, a white-spined cucumber, 
intermediate between Hybrid and Longfellow. Has practi¬ 
cally no white stripes or tipping and holds its color when 
shipped. Runs nearly 12 inches long. Not adapted to pick- 
.10 
.35 
1.25 
ling. Outyields Longfellow by far and has few seeds. 
Clark’s Special Cucumber. This special strain developed over a 
period of years for critical market garden trade has out¬ 
standing merits as a main crop cucumber it has a very 
attractive deep green color, being the darkest green cucum- 
.15 
.45 
1.50 
ber that we know on the market today. 65 days. 
Early Fortune. 60 days. The finest type of White Spine yet 
produced. Early, very productive and disease-resistant; 
fruits nine inches long, slightly tapering; flesh white, very 
.10 
.30 
1.10 
firm and crisp, with very few seeds; color rich, dark green 
Extra Long or Evergreen White Spine. A very fine strain of the 
White Spine type; is longer than the ordinary White Spine 
and holds its rich dark green color well down to the bios- 
.10 
.30 
1.10 
som end; immense cropper. 
.10 
.30 
1.10 
Davis’ Perfect. 70 days. An extra long, dark green type of White 
Spine; retains its color and good qualities long after being 
picked; fruit is exceptionally long, smooth, and tapering 
at both ends; flesh crisp, solid, with few seeds; mid-season. 
11x3 in. 
Hybrid White Spine. We consider this the finest all around 
cucumber in existence. It has a long and straight, at¬ 
tractive shape, with a very rich green color, a fine lot of 
snowy white spines . 
Cucumber, Straight-8. Gold Medal Award in the All-America 
Trials of 1935. The most outstanding variety of cucumber 
developed during the last decade. Straight-8 is ideal in 
size, shape, and color. When in prime condition, it averages 
8 inches long, is uniformly cylindrical, and possesses the 
desirable deep dark green color which it retains. 
.10 
.10 
.30 
.30 
1.10 
1.10 
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.35 
1.25 
