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CUCUMBER (Cont) 
EARLY SHORT GREEN OR EARLY FRAME 5 
Splendid for pickling and for slicing; very popular for home gardens. Fruits 
bright medium green; black spined ; 6—7 in. long, 214 in, thick; uniform; blunt. 
EARLY WHITE SPINE , 
The most popular white spined cucumber for the home garden; extensively 
grown for shipping. Fruits medium dark green; remain in good condition 
remarkably long; 7 in. long; 2% in. thick; slightly tapered; blunt. 
FERRY’S LONG GREEN 
The most popular and one of the best for the home garden; particularly 
desirable for slicing. Fruits rich dark green; black spined; 12 in. long; 2%4— 
23%, in. thick; straight, cylindrical; with few seeds. 
IMPROVED LONG GREEN 
Excellent home garden variety. Fruits 10 to 12 inches long, medium dark 
green, black spined. Very desirable for slicing. 
KLONDIKE 
Very desirable for shipping. Fruits handsome; very dark green; white spined; 
7—8 in. long, 2% in. thick, cylindrical. 
LEMON 
Of superior quality for slicing and general salad use; fine for pickles, Fruits 
deep lemon yellow; black spined; become 3—3¥%% in. long and almost as thick; 
blunt. 
LONGFELLOW 
Particularly valuable for shipping. Fruits handsome; extremely dark green 
Over entire surface, retain the color remarkably long after picking; white 
spined; 12—14 in. long; 214—23% in. thick; straight, well filled at ends; very 
few seeds. 
NATIONAL PICKLING 
Particularly uniform and valuable black-spined variety, for production of 
high grade small pickles, Fruits straight, symmetrical, full at the ends; about 
6 inches long when mature. 
SMALL GHERKIN 
Of superior quality for pickles. This is the true West India gherkin which 
is a species distinct from the true cucumber. Very prolific; fruits for pickles 
and produced in about 60 days. Fruits pale green; prickly over entire sur- 
face; become 114—2 in. long; oval; very uniform; seeds numerous and small. 
SNOW’S PICKLING 
Extremely early and prolific. Best and most popular variety for small 
pickles. Fruits dark green at pickling size; black spined; become 5 in. long; 
2144—2¥4 in. thick; symmetrical; blunt. | 
STRAIGHT-8 (All-America Gold Medal Award for 1935. Our Introduction) 
This outstanding variety produces symmetrical, cylindrical fruits about eight 
inches in length and about 1% inches in diameter. Fruits well rounded at 
the ends, deep green when ready for use, and free from objectionable striping 
or tipping. An ideal shipping cucumber and also desirable for home and market 
garden, 
DANDELION 
CULTIVATED OR FRENCH COMMON 
Plants low growing, compact, attain a spread of 18 to 20 in.; leaves long and 
broad, 
IMPROVED THICK LEAVED (American Strain) 
Very superior strain. Makes vigorous, very compact growth. Produces a 
spreading rosette of leaves 18 to 24 in. across; leaves very numerous, thick in 
texture, and blanch readily. 
DILL 
MAMMOTH (Anethum Graveolens) oe 
Annual about 2—3 ft. tall; of strong aromatic odor and mildly pungent flavor : 
chiefly grown for seed clusters used in making dill pickles. 
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