Early White Spine Cucumber 
CRESS or PEPPER GRASS 
Garten Kresse Cresson Mastuerzo Agretto 
One packet sows 10 to 15 feet of row; one ounce for the average garden. 
Culture. As early in the spring as the ground can be worked, sow two 
15-foot rows and_ follow up with two more rows each week until the middle of 
summer. This will provide excellent greens until the middle of August. 
Green Curled. A handsomely fringed and curly-leaved variety. Goes 
to seed quickly. 
WATER CRESS 
Brunnen Kresse Cresson de fontaine Berro Nasturzio aquatico 
One packet will sow 20 square feet; one ounce is enough for 100 square feet. 
Culture. Scatter the seeds thickly along margins of creeks or banks of 
rivers quite to the water-line, or start seeds in a box, keeping the ground moist. 
True Water Cress. Fine for salad and garnishing. Crisp, peppery flavor. 
CUCUMBERS 
Gurken Concombres Pepinos Cetriolos 
One packet contains sufficient seeds for 10 hills; one ounce will plant 75 to 
80 hills; two pounds are enough for one acre. 
Culture. Start the seeds in rich soil in paper pots or boxes in late spring, 
keeping warm and sheltered from wind until summer is established; then set 
outdoors in richly prepared hills of light soil, or the seed may be sown in the 
hills in early summer when the ground is warm. Pick regularly. 
A. & C. Uniform, nearly cylindrical, very dark green, rounded at 
ends, 9 to 11 inches long, 2]/2 inches in diameter. Highly desirable 
for shipping and for market gardeners. 68 days. 
Black Diamond. A dark green variety, produced early by a prolific 
plant. Fine shipper. 
Boston Pickling (Early Green Prolific). An early pickling variety 4 to 
5 inches long when at its best. 
Davis Perfect. A symmetrical slicing Cucumber, 8 to 10 inches long, 
uniformly dark green, with crisp pure white flesh, very highly flavored. 
Early Cluster. Short, thick fruits borne early in the season. Crisp 
and tender for pickling. 
Early Fortune. Smooth-skinned fruits, always uniform and sym¬ 
metrical. Suitable for slicing in about 58 days from sowing. 
Early White Spine. The finest type for slicing, reaching 7 inches. 
Long Green. Big, handsome slicing Cucumbers, 10 to 12 inches long 
when fully developed. Small seed-cavity. 
Longfellow. One of the long late varieties, used both for the home- 
garden and for forcing. Fruits 12 to 15 inches long, 2^ inches in 
diameter, dark green, very symmetrical and attractive. 
Straight Eight. Uniformly cylindrical, 8 to 10 inches long, 2J4 inches 
in diameter, weighing 2)4 pounds. Medium green, quite free from 
white stripes. An attractive Cucumber. 68 days. 
Woodruff’s Hybrid. Rich green fruits with snowy white spines. 
Fine shipper. 
Some successful gardeners 
sow Cucumber seed on in¬ 
verted pieces of sod laid on the 
surface of a warm hotbed. The 
young seedlings root well in the 
sod and are easily transplanted 
to their permanent plaees later 
on. Pots or boxes may be 
used instead of the sod if it is 
preferred. It is always wise to 
sow two or three times as 
many seeds as you expect to 
mature plants, because they 
are attacked by the Cucumber 
beetle as soon as they are 
through the ground, and sev¬ 
eral plants in each hill are 
bound to be destroyed. When 
danger of insects is past, reduce 
the number of plants to three 
in each hill. Dusting with 
tobacco dust or some other 
insecticide will keep the plants 
free of striped beetles. Cu¬ 
cumbers respond quickly and 
generously to liberal feeding, 
and in picking the fruits the 
vines and foliage should be 
handled as gently as possible, 
because they are very brittle 
and are easily broken. 
Longfellow Cucumber 
THE PAGE SEED COMPANY, Greene, N.Y. 
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