CUCUMBER 
Culture. Plant after ground is warm, in 
hills 4 ft. apart each way, covering 8 to 10 
seeds per hill, % in. in heavy or 1 in. in sandy 
soils. Thin to 4 plants after rough leaves 
appear and cultivate until vines begin to 
run. Keep fruits cleanly picked to prolong 
bearing. Young cucumbers make grand 
pickles. Larger ones are used for slicing and 
in salads, but use when dark green and crisp, 
before seeds harden. White spine varieties 
stay green longer and turn white with age. 
Black spine sorts turn yellow with age. 
Vitamins A and Bu. 
Early Cluster. 54 days; black spine; 534 x 
2% in. Earliest for pickling and slicing; 
prolific, uniform and smooth. Medium green, 
home garden sort that gives satisfaction. 
Fruits in clusters. 
Black Diamond. 54 days; white spine; 
8x2% in. ‘Stays Green’? cucumber with 
deep green skin, pure white flesh of finest 
quality, crisp and tender. Recommended for 
home gardens, marketing and shipping. It 
holds its color a long time, retaining a fresh 
appearance. 
Pickling. 58 days; black spine; 644 x 24 in. 
Extremely prolific, dark green skin when 
young, with few warts. Uniform size, blunt 
ended and disease resistant. Popular for 
home-made pickles as with big pickle houses. 
GHERKINS. 60 days; 2x14 in. For 
pickling only. Most prolific of all and must 
be used when small. The little fruits or burs 
are covered with soft spines and make unique 
as well as delicious pickles. Not like usual 
cucumbers. 
Japanese Climbing. 60 days; black spine; 
9x 21% in. Makes much Jonger runners and 
may be trained on fences or poles. Makes 
good pickles when young and is a long- 
season bearer, holding the dark green fruits 
off the ground. Resists msects, disease and 
hot, dry conditions. Flesh is firm and crisp 
and never bitter. 
Straight 8. 60 days; white spine; 8 x 2 in. 
All-America Selection. Ideal; uniform shape, 
size and dark green color; cylindrical with 
rounded ends and without noticeable stripes 
at ends. Grand for slicing, packing and 
attractive market appearance. Most de- 
sirable for home, market and shipping. 
Early Fortune. 60 days; white spine, 
9x24 in. Standard whitespine variety for 
home, market or shipping; perhaps the 
inspiration for the new varieties of this fine 
type. Holds its dark green color for many 
days after picking, of regular tapering shape, 
and highly productive of crisp, firm fruits. 
Improved Long Green. 65 days; black 
spine; 11x3 in. Rather warted but with 
glossy green skin and solid, white flesh. Good 
general purpose home garden variety, from 
pickle to slicing stages. While black-spined, 
It is used for market when half grown and is 
always popular. Very productive. 
Longfellow. 68 days; white spine; 12 x 3 in. 
Extra Jong fruits of fmest quality, tapering 
sharply at both ends. Rich dark green that 
holds up and enormous yielder, for paying 
field and greenhouse growing, as well as for 
most attractive home garden fruits. 
ENDIVE 
Plant in earliest spring or fall, shallowly in 
rows 114 ft. apart and thin to a foot apart. 
Center of plants may be blanched by tying 
outer leaves, when dry, over the top a week 
before used. Some simply lay a board over 
plants. Grand for garnishing, salads, greens 
and flavoring soups and stews. Rich in 
Vitamins A, and Bi; very hardy to cold. 
Green Curled. 95 days. Very hardy, 
vigorous, with bright green, finely and 
beautifully divided leaves that blanch to a 
cream color. Green midribs in the mass of 
foliage. For home and market. 
Broad Leaved Batavian. 90-95 days. 
All-America Selection. Full Heart, Escarolle 
Type. For home and market. Wide-leaved, 
wavy, deep green outer leaves with fleshy 
midribs. Inside leaves form a rather solid 
head which blanches creamy white. Crisp, 
tender, delicious. 


EGGPLANT 
Valuable home garden vegetable, even 
used as a meat substitute, especially when 
sliced, rolled in beaten egg yolk and bread 
crumbs, seasoned and fried in fat. Vitamins 
A and Bi. 
Culture. Tender plant, so start seed about 
March 1st in hotbed or where temperature is 
at least 65 degrees. Set plants outside after 
frost danger, 2 ft. apart each way, and 
cultivate often. A rich, light, warm soil 
makes the best crop. 
Black Beauty. 81 days from plants. Early, 
2-21% ft. plants, with 4 or 5 large egg-shaped 
fruits. Productive of smooth, blackish purple 
fruits that hold up after picking, our most 
popular variety for home and market use. 
Its quality is the best, whether used young 
or old. Color picture, Page 17. 
New York Improved. 83 days from plants. 
Entirely spineless; large, glossy dark purple, 
broad, oval shaped fruits. Flesh is firm, very 
meaty and of super quality. Slightly larger 
than Black Beauty, little lighter in color and 
longer in shape. Plants are early, continuous 
bearers and low branching. 
Florida High Bush. 85 days from plants. 
Strong plants are vigorous, high branching 
and bear their Jarge, cylindrical or elongated 
dark purple fruits well above the ground. 
This is an advantage in keeping fruits off the 
ground and it is also somewhat resistant to 
fruit rot and blight, withstanding drought 
and wet weather. 
HERBS 
Herbs belong in every kitchen garden. 
For winter use, dry the foliage as it begins 
to flower and keep it in air-tight bottles. 
For their fragrance and blooms they also 
belong in the flower garden. Try a few this 
year. 
Anise. Annual; 75 days; 18 in. 
Borage. Annual; 80 days; 18 in. 
Caraway. Biennial; 70 days; 20 in. 
Dill. Annual; 70 days; 24-30 in. 
Lavender. Perennial; 60 days; 24 in. 
Rosemary. Perennial; 90 days;'24 in. 
Sage, Broadleaf. Perennial; 75 days; 18 in. 
Sweet Fennel. Perennial; 60 days; 30 in. 
Sweet Marjoram. Annual; 65 days; 14 in. 
Thyme. Perennial; 80 days; 10 in. 
KALE 
Kale or Borecole Jeaves are usually used 
for greens and garnishing. Spring, fall and 
winter crops are all popular. Broadcast or 
drill seed from early spring until fall. Quality 
is improved by light frost. Thin plants to 
18 in. apart in rows for good size plants. 
Vitamins A and Bi. 
Early Green Curled. 55 days. Vigorous, 
spreading growth of large bluish-green leaves 
with beautifully frilled edges. Very hardy and 
popular for greens, and heavy enough foliage 
to spare some for the chickens. 
KOHL-RABI 
Cabbage family member with a turnip- 
shaped bulb formed above the ground. This 
bulb is eaten, flavored between cabbage and 
turnip, tender and of good quality if used 
before fully matured. Leaves, removed when 
bulb is cut, grow right out from the bulb. 
Vitamin Bi. 
& 
Culture. Sow seed in beds and transplant 
like cabbage or in light, rich garden soil early 
in spring. Thin to 5 in. apart, in rows 1% ft. 
apart. Start fall plantings in August, with 
successive 15 day plantings for tender bulbs 
over a long period. 
Early White Vienna. 55 days. Bulbs are 
whitish green, 2 in. across at best eating 
quality, while skin is tender. Cut off the 
hard lower portion and boil or cream, sliced 
or whole. Mild cabbage flavor you will 
relish. Extremely early, with small leaves; 
the best kind. 
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LEEK 
Very hardy onion-like plant which makes 
no bulb but has a big thick neck to be eaten. 
Flavor is milder and sweeter than onions. 
The edible portion is about 6 in. long and 
2 in. thick. 
Culture. Sow in early spring, in beds for 
transplanting or in drills 114 ft. apart, cover- 
ing seed 44 inch. Set out or thin plants to 
6 in. apart when 6 in. high, and draw soil 
up around stems in cultivating to blanch 
them. For very white Leeks, set 4 in. apart 
in_ trenches 2 ft. apart and gradually draw 
soil around them, as for blanching celery. 
Giant Leek. 130 days. Giant leaves, 
making a broad base, 2 to 3 inches across, 
and blanching almost pure white. Very mild, 
delicate, onion-like flavor and delicious in 
stews or creamed. For home or market. 
LETTUCE 
Leaf or green Lettuce contains Vitamins 
A and Bi and valuable minerals. Butter- 
Head varieties form good size, solid heads, 
the heart or inside Jeaves blanching to a 
buttery yellow. In warm weather they do 
not head as well as the Crisp-Leaf type, but 
furnish plenty of green leaves for salads. 
Crisp-Leaf or Crisp-Head varieties make 
large, round, solid heads, when given space 
to develop, and blanch to a silvery white or 
cream shade inside. Leaves are also crisper 
and savoyed or crumpled. Loose-Leaf 
varieties do not head. 
Culture. Sow in rich, well worked soil, as 
soon as cold weather is past, or start earlier 
in bed or cold-frame for transplanting. 6 to 
12 in, apart in 144 ft. rows. Cover seed 4 in. 
Growth is best in cool weather. Good heads 
depend on keeping plants growing steadily, 
with plant food, moisture and cultivation. 
Loose-Leaf or Cutting Lettuce is thinned 
and used as it becomes crowded. 
Chicken Lettuce. 40 days. Not for table 
use. Non-heading, fast and tall growing 
type, reaching 4 ft. before going to seed. 
After cutting, the stalks or stumps start new 
rowth for another crop. Widely used for 
eeding poultry and rabbits. 
Early Curled Simpson. Loose-Leaf. 43 
days. White-seeded strain, the large plants 
having light green, crumpled and lightly 
frilled leaves. Distinct type, with a bunch of 
crisp, brittle, tender leaves of fine flavor and 
piquant taste. Spring and early summer 
favorite. 
Grand Rapids. Loose-Leaf. 45 days. Non- 
heading, with intensely curled and fringed 
leaves. Thick planting gives tender young 
leaves early in season or spaced 12-18 inches, 
they make big round bunches of tender, 
juicy, light green leaves. Most attractive 
variety and best of its type. 
Big Boston. Butter- Head. 78 days to head. 
Most popular and widely planted Butter- 
Head variety. Medium large heads with 
outer leaves smooth, light green, tinged 
bronze at the edges. Heads well in cool 
weather with a golden heart of tender, juicy 
leaves. 
Imperial 847. Crisp-Leaf. 82 days to head. 
New blight-resistant sure header, even dur- 
ing hot, dry weather, so of great Southern 
home and commercial value. Compact 
heads of quality are medium-large, rich 
green, heavily savoyed and retain a good 
market appearance longer than _ others. 
Black-seeded. 
iceberg. Crisp-Leaf. 83 days to head. The 
home and local market favorite. Of finest 
eating quality in leaf or head, crisp, tender 
and juicy. Fringed and savoyed, light green 
outer leaves with bronzy edges fold over the 
large head to blanch the sweet heart creamy 
white. Dependable garden header. 
White Paris Cos-Lettuce. 83 days. Ro- 
maine or Celery Lettuce. Erect, compact 
plants about 10 in. tall with medium green 
outer leaves and greenish white interior. 
Earliest and best Cos; crisp, brittle and 
tender, with refreshing sweet flavor. Doesn’t 
need to be tied up for blanching, 
