


Slicing varieties. 
Cucumber Pickling varieties Page 26. 
ay More recent developments of this type 
Slicing Cucumbers include A. & C., Black Diamond Dark 
Green Tipped, Colorado, Straight-8 and Taxpayer. All are very dark 
green and present a handsome appearance on the market. Tendency 
of light striping toward the stem end is more or less eliminated. 
Deltus is recommended for greenhouse forcing as well as for highest 
quality open field grown slicers. It is rather delicate to grow. 


G5 days. This wonderful cucumber fairly shouts 
Greenbac ‘hot-house grown.” Who wouldn’t like to grow these 
handsome, expensive looking fruits in their gardens or have them 
to offer to their fancy trade. Given proper growing conditions 
Greenbac has the finest eating quality as well as appearance. Fruits 
about 2% inches in diameter near the blossom end, tapering gently 
to the rounded stem end. Length 12 inches. Flesh white and crisp, 
seeds form late. White spined. ; 
(Pkt., 10c) (0z., 20c) (%4 Ib., 60c) CIb., $2.05) (5 Ibs., $9.00) prepaid 
days. The long, green cucum- 
Improved Long Green pom hen sultans for slicing are 
often 8 to 10 inches long, crisp and of good quality; has very few 
seeds; fruits become red when ripe. Black spined. ; 
(PKt., 10c) (0z., 20c) (%4 Ib., 60c) CUb., $2.00) (5 Ibs., $S.S0) prepaid 
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72 days. This variety is well 
Longfellow named because vuf its long, 
slender, handsome appearance. It is desirable 
for home garden and shipping, also sometimes 
used for greenhouse forcing. 12 to 14 inches 
long, 2% inches thick, dark green, uniform, 
straight and attractive, white spined. 
(Pkt., 5¢e) (oz. 15¢e) (4% Ib., 35e) Cb., $1.15) 
(5 lbs., $5.25) prepaid 
S e h 8 66 days. The Straight-8 Cucum- 
fraig f- ber is an outstanding breeding 
accomplishment. Straight-8 produces sym- 
metrical, almost cylindrical fruits, well 
rounded at both ends. When in best market 
condition this white spine variety typifies its 
name, running quite straight, regularly eight 
inches in length and from 1% to 2 inches in 
diameter. In this stage the color is deep green 
and usually free from objectionable pale 
striping or tipping. The vines are vigorous 
and remarkably productive. Although. pri- 
marily bred for the shipping trade, its many 
fine qualities make it an ideal slicing variety 
for the home garden and local market. Also 
used in the South as a long pickling variety. 
So good that it won the “All America” Gold 
Medal Award for 1935. 
(Pkt., 10c) (0z., 30ce) (% Ib., 90c) (Ib., $2.65) 
(5 Ibs., $11.25) prepaid 
Taxpayer or Improved Early 
F G4 days. The Taxpayer can 
orftune pest be described asa heavy 
yielding, very dark green Early Fortune. It is 
bred from that variety; improvement being 
mostly in its attractive dark green color which 
is carried around the tip of the fruits, doing 
away with the objectionable light striping. 
i: Fruits dark green, tapers abruptly to the stem 
Straight-s Cucumber end and slightly to the blossom end. An excel- 
lent shipper, and one of the mildest flavored of the dark green sorts. 
Length eight to nine inches, thickness two and one-half inches. 
White spined. 
(Pkt., 5e) (0z., 15e) (4 Ib., 35e) (1b., $1.15) (5 Ibs., $5.25) prepaid 

The number of days indicated is the average time required from 
planting of seed to developed fruits of the first slicing stage. We have 
done this for the sake of uniformity in making comparison. The 
time should be reduced several days for small pickles and slightly 
increased for full grown fruits. Black spine varieties turn red or 
yellow when ripe and white spine varieties turn white when ripe. 

24 D. V. Burrell Seed Growers Co., Rocky Ford, Colo. 
