

Slicing varieties, 

Pickling varieties Page 26. 
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) (0z., 25e) (% Ib., 80c) Cb., $2.40) 
(5 Ibs., $10.50) prepaid 
: ] 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. 
Medal Award for 1935. 
(Pkt., 10c) (0z., 30c) (4 Ib., 90c) (lb., $2.60) 
(5 Ibs., $11.25) prepaid 
Taxpayer or Improved _ Early 
64 days. The Taxpayer can 
Fortune best be described as a heavy 
yielding, very dark green Early 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., 20¢) (4 Ib., 70c) (lb., $2.15) (5 Ibs., $9.50) 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. 

FROM EL CERRITO, CALIF.—We have such good results with your Colo- 
rado grown Cucumber that we don’t want any substitute. Last year 1 Ib. of 
seed yielded more than 3000 bags of extra fancy Cucumbers for April and 
May. 

24 D. V. Burrell Seed Growers Co., Rocky Ford, Colo. 
So good that it won the “All America” Gold 
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