


SUMMER CROOKNECK 

HUBBARD 
GOLDEN SUMMER CROOKNECK 
60 days. The fruits are of true crookneck type, heavily warted, and of light 
golden color. Pick when small for tenderness. A good early variety for home 
planting. 
HUBBARD (Winter) 
Green Warted 
100 days. The most widely 
known winter squash. Dark 
green, round shape, weighing 
12 to 14 pounds. Flesh bright 
yellow, fine texture. Wonder- 
ful flavor. 
TABLE QUEEN or 
ACORN (Winter) 
100 days. Small, smooth, dark 
green acorn shaped squash. 
Flesh is light yellow, dry, mealy 
and delicious. Just the right 
size for baking and serving in 
halves. 
well-manured, rich soil. 
SQUASH 
When weather has become settled and warm, plant in 
Plant seed in hills 3 to 4 feet 
apart for bush varieties and 6 to 8 feet apart for run- 
ning varieties. Sow 8 to 10 seeds per hill and cover with 
1 to 2 inches of dirt. When plants reach the fourth leaf 
stage, thin out to the three strongest. An occasional feeding of liquid manure will increase 
size of fruit. 
Prices (except as noted): Pkt. 10c, 1 oz. 35c, V4 Ib. 75c, 1 Ib. $2.00. 



GIANT SUMMER STRAIGHTNECK 
55 days. A selection from the crookneck squash but with a straight neck, 
making it easily packed for shipping. Fruits warted, 18 to 20 inches long, deep 
orange in color, with a thick meaty neck. 
BANANA (Winter) 
105 days. Cylindrical shape, 
18 to 24 inches long, 7 inches 
in diameter. Smooth gray-blue 
skin. Orange-yellow flesh is 
dry and sweet and stringless. 
Fine for pies. 
LAGENARIA LEUCAN- 
THA LONGISSIMA 
An unusual gourd type grown 
extensively in Europe espe- 
cially by the Italians. Fruits 
often grow 36 inches long and 
4 to 6 inches in diameter. 
Vines trailing in habit and 
should be trellised to grow 
straight fruits. 
BLACK ZUCCHINI 
d Strain 
», Lago Black: Fruit 
| DARK GREEN or ITALICA 

A delicious family and leading mar- 
ket variety. Cook and serve same as 
asparagus. Cut in small pieces and 
-creamed, sliced and fried, or used 
as a salad, it is delicious. Fruit 
is smooth, cylindrical, deep green 
color, free from striping or mottling. 
Use when young and tender and 
cook with the skin on. Wonderful 
flavor and very productive. 
Pkt. 15¢, 1 oz. 40c, Y% Ib. 95c. 

WHITE BUSH SCALLOP 
EARLY WHITE BUSH SCALLOP 
(Benning’s Green Tinted) 
A very early summer variety maturing in 50 days. A patty-pan 
variety with fruit that is flattened and scalloped, with creamy 
white skin and fiesh of extra fine quality. Vines are very free 
bearers. 

BLACK ZUCCHINI 

ROSELLE 
FOR SUPERIOR JELLY 
An annual plant. It makes a very superior jelly, 
considered by many better than guava or currant 
jelly. Sow in spring after the danger of frost is 
over in rows 3 feet apart and 2 feet apart in the 
rows. The plant is ornamental and easily grown 
from seed. Pkt. 10c. 
PARSNIPS 
Do the best in deep, rich soil. Sow early in rows 18 
inches to 2 feet apart; cover Y2 inch deep. Thin 
to 6 to 8 inches. Cultivate freely. 
HOLLOW CROWN 
Roots about 18 inches long with smooth white skin, 
uniform in shape, tapering evenly from a heavy 
shoulder to a small root. Flesh tender. Best variety. 
Pkt. 10c, 1 oz. 25c, V4 Ib. 65c, 1 Ib. $2.00. 
a delicious 
N. Cu green vegetable 
prepared and 
«<i Tampala 
spinach 
A delicious new green vegetable, the leaves of 
which are cooked, prepared and used as ‘’greens’’ 
like spinach. It has a different taste than spinach, 
however, in fact it is different than any other 
green vegetable. It retains its tenderness for a 
longer time, has more body and more food value 
than most greens. It is a good hot weather plant 
and will keep on producing all summer. Leaves 
are so tender they can be cooked in five minutes. 
A definite change from all other ‘’greens’’ 
Pkt. 15c, 2 pkts. 25¢, Vg oz. 60c, 1% oz. $1.00. 

SPINACH 
Sow in rich, well-drained soil, Y2 inch deep in rows 
1 foot apart, early in spring, and successive sow- 
ings every two weeks. 
HOLLANDIA PRICKLY WINTER 
New, improved strain of prickly winter varieties 
of spinach, thick leaves dark green. 
MONSTROUS or VIROFLAY 
The leading variety of the round or smooth seeded 
class. Dark green leaves. In demand for canning. 
NEW ZEALAND 
Branching stems 2 to 3 feet long bearing thick 
fleshy leaves. Should be planted in hills 2 feet each 
way. Plant several seeds per hill. 
Pkt. 10c, 1 oz. 25c, 1% Ib. 65c. 

NEW! RED CHARD 
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a | This new Swiss Chard looks like Rhubarb. 
ite The leaf stalks are bright but delicate, 
A translucent crimson, the rich color extend- 
mf | ing out through the veins into the dark 
a CHARD green, heavily crumpled leaves. Plants are 
ne so beautiful they can be used in flower 
¢ beds. You will enjoy the different, tasty 
flavor of this chard. Pkt. 15¢, 1 oz. 50c, 
V4 Ib. $1.25. 
GIANT LUCULLUS 
A fine producer, often growing to 
22 feet with broad, heavily ribbed 
light green leaves. Pkt. 10c, 1 oz. 
35c, “4 tb. 85c, 1 Ib. $2.40. 
FORDHOOK 
This is our favorite giant strain 
with smooth dark green leaves on 
broad stalks. Very succulent and 
rich in flavor. Pkt. 10¢, 1 oz. 35c, 
Yq Ib. 85c, 1 Ib. $2.40. 




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