

Slicing varieties. 
Cucumber Pickling varieties Page 26. 
oe 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. 

72 days. This variety is well 
Longfellow named because of 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.. 10c) (02, 23ce) (% Ib. 75e) (lb., $2.25) 
( Ibs., $9.80) prepaid 
bs 66 days. The Straight-8 Cucum- 
Straight-8 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. 
( Ibs., $10.50) prepaid 
Taxpayer or Improved _ Early 
64 days. The Taxpayer can 
Fortune best be described as a heavy 
yielding, very dark green HKarly Fortune. It is 
bred from that variety; improvement being 
mostly in its attractive dark green color which 
Straight-8 Cucumber is carried around the tip of the fruits, doing 
away with the objectionable light striping. 
Fruits dark green, tapers abruptly to the stem 
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., 10c) (0z., 20c) (%4 Ib., 60c) (ib., $2.00) (5 Ibs., $8.80) 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 com: . 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. 



FROM GARRISON, TEX.—The Rocky Ford Pepper Seed you sent sent me 
last May planted nearly one acre. I harvested nearly 300 bushels; I received 
20 to 40 cents above, per bushel, over my competitors. I sold about one half 
of my crop at $1.00 per bushel. The size held up better than other varieties 
and I found Rocky Ford to be very prolific. 
24 D. V. Burrell Seed Growers Co., Rocky Ford, Colo. 
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