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F. LAGOMARSINO & SONS, SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA 13 

CUCUMBERS 
For cool salads... 
and spicy pickles 

Cucumber, 
Cucumbers are a ‘must have” for every 
gardener. So easy to grow. Slip the long 
slim white seeds into a fertile well-drained 
soil after frost danger is past. They are 
quick in germinating and the young vines, 
three or four to a hill, spread quickly. One 
packet of seed will plant 15 hills, allowing 
for thinning. Cultivate frequently until run- 
ners interfere. Successive plantings insure 
constant supplies. Table types mature in 60 
days, pickling varieties sooner. Harvest fre- 
quently to insure continuous crop. 
BOSTON PICKLING : 
A favorite pickling variety for California 
very productive with long green fruit, very 
smooth and symmetrical and tapering only 
slightly. The flesh is/crisp and tender. Pkt. 
10c, oz. 25c, 1% Ib. 75c, 1 lb. $2.50. 
EARLY FORTUNE 
A leading market gardening variety 
proven an excellent shipper. Slender (2 to 
22 inches) and 8 to 9 inches in length, crisp 
flesh with small-seed cavity. A top seller at 
the Lago Seed Store. Pkt. 10c, oz. 25c, “% lb. 
75c, 
LAGO NU-GREEN 
This is a recent introduction which we 
find highly prized by home gardeners— 
should be in every Victory Garden. Straight, 
slender dark green, 12 to 14 inches long, 
solid in flesh with small seed cavity and a 
delicious flavor. Pkt. 10c, oz. 25c, % lb. 75c. 
LEMON CUCUMBER 
Something different and highly thought 
of is this deep lemon yellow variety, whose 

Klondike 
fruit is ripe for harvest as it begins to turn 
color. Very productive with a distinct tart- 
sweet flavor of its own. Pkt. 10c, oz. 40c. 
WEST INDIA GHERKIN 
Exclusively for pickling with 2-inch oval 
prickly fruit borne in abundance. Pkt. 10c, 
oz. 35c. 
GREEN CUCUMBER 
A fine variety in a small garden as it 
does best when grown on a fence or trellis. 
Fruit is dark green, 8 inches in length with 
a crispness and flavor the equal of any. 
Fkt. 10c, oz. 25c, 1% lb. 75c. 
KLONDIKE 
One of the best shippers and matures in 
64 days. The dark green of the fruit is re- 
tained for some time at maturity, and it is 
affected less by heat than any of the vari- 
éties. Fruit is 7 to 8 inches long and uniform 
in size and shape. Pkt. 10c, oz. 25c, % Ib. 
Voce 
STRAIGHT EIGHT 
Rapidly coming to the front as a best- 
seller. Has dark green fruit 8xl'% inches. 
A fine garden variety which slices crisply 
into any salad. Pkt. 10c, oz. 25c, Y% lb. 75c. 
LONG GREEN 
IMPROVED 
Makes 
sweet pickles and is equally 
the very finest of 
desirable as a Victory Garden 
Special. The crop matures over 
a long season, producing fruit 
10-12 inches long of a fine rich 
green. Pkt. 10c, oz. 25c, Y%4 lb. 
7§c. 
Cucumber, Straight Eight 
ENDIVE 
Adds Zest to Salads! 
There are so many things that go to make 
up the “right’’ kind of a salad. Endive from 
your spring garden is one of them. Set the 
young plants into the rows about 12 inches 
apart, cultivate frequently for a few weeks, 
and when the plants are nearly grown, tie 
the outer green leaves over the light colored 
inner ones at a time when the plant is quite 
dry. About three weeks later the heads will 
be ready to serve. The plant is wholesome, 
nutritious, with a peppery flavor you will 
enjoy. 
LARGE GREEN CURLED 
This is a hardy variety with heads meas- 
uring 16 to 18 inches across, with very curly 
bright green leaves with rosy colored mid- 
ribs. Matures in 95 days. The home gar- 
dener’s favorite. Pkt. 10c, oz. 25c, Y lb. 75c. 
BROAD LEAVED BATAVIAN 
Characterized by broad fleshy leaves with 
serrated twisted edges. Pkt. 10c, oz. 25c, 
Yq lb. 75c. 
FENNEL 
or Finncchio 
This is another well-favored salad plant. 
The edible portion is the enlarged leaf stalk 
which is blanched and used either alone or 
with other salad plants. Occasionally boiled, 
it has a sweet spicy aromatic flavor. Handle 
the plants in the field as celery is grown. 
FLORENCE (Sweet Anise) 
This plant matures with feathery foliage 
and a bulb-like base. The base may be 
eaten raw or cooked, while the stalks are: 
eaten as is celery. Pkt. 10c, oz. 35c, % Ib. 
75c. 
LARGE SICILIAN 
A hardy, vigorous grower with heavy 
white stalks. Pkt. 10c, oz. 35c, % lb. 75c. 

Endive, Green Curled 
