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SQUASH, EARLY SUMMER CROOKNECK 
Winter Varieties 
Improved Hubbard. The best seller and most popular variety 
on our list. Rind dark green, warty and very hard. Flesh light 
orange, very dry, sweet and rich flavored. Has no superior. 
Marblehead. Large slate colored variety of fine quality. It 
produces heavy yields of thick meated squash. Popular ship- 
ping variety. 
Blue Hubbard. The fruits are an attractive blue-gray color, 
larger than the True Hubbard. The shell is rough and very 
hard, so keeping qualities are good. Flesh is bright yellow- 
orange, fine grained, dry and exceptionally sweet. Squashes 
grow 15 to 18 inches long and 9 to 12 inches across; average 
weight, 15 lbs. each. : 
Mammoth Chili. The largest of all squashes, growing to an 
enormous size, often weighing over 200 pounds, while its rich 
fine flavored flesh insures its value for all purposes. 
Banana Squash. Grows from 1 to 2 feet in length. Flesh firm 
and solid, of beautiful orange-yellow, and excellent quality. 
Rind or shell smooth and grayish-green color. Resists heat 
of the sun better than the Hubbard and is a good keeper. 
Golden Hubbard. The same in size, shape and quality as the 
well known Hubbard Squash, except that it is bright red or 
golden color, and somewhat earlier. Good keeper. 
Boston Marrow. Skin yellowish, very thin; flesh dry and fine 
grained; of unsurpassed flavor. 
Green Delicious—For quality. A squash of exceptional merit 
for table use. A fall and winter variety, but is fine in all 
seasons, though its best quality is not attained until winter. 
The fruit varies in shape and size, weight ranging from 5 to 
10 pounds each. The rind is very thin, uniformly green, and 
the flesh is very thick and dark orange color. 
Golden Delicious. Similar to above, but a deep golden color. 
Vegetable Marrow. White, tender flesh used for baking and 
frying. Distinctive flavor. Bush. 
Delicata. Small fruited variety, suitable for both summer and 
winter use, flesh thick and solid, very rich flavor. 
SPINACH 
1 oz. to 100 ft., 8 Ibs. per acre. 
Sow in rows 16 to 20 inches apart and thin to 6 inches apart 
in the row when leaves are an inch wide. In the North, seed 
can be planted as soon as the ground can be prepared. In the 
South, Spinach will Winter over with little or no protection. 
Pkt. 10c; 1 oz. 25c; % Ib. 60c. 
Improved Thick Leaf. The seed of this thick leaved variety 
produces the largest Spinach. They grow rapidly and remain 
in good condition a long time. The medium green leaves are 
large, rounded, slightly crumpled, succulent, and tender. It is 
an excellent home garden Spinach. 
New Giant Smooth Leaf. The largest and the most productive 
of any sort we have tried. Plants 20 inches across are not un- 
common on good soil. The leaves are simply immense, of deep 
green, very heavy, brittle and tender. It is very slow to seed 
and is especially valuable for spring, summer and fall cutting. 
New Zealand. Although not a true Spinach, the leaves look 
like Spinach and are very useful as greens. On soil too poor to 
grow Spinach successfully, the plants thrive and produce 
groups of small fleshy leaves that are tender and delicious 
when cooked. Each branch of the plant produces others, so 
that it goes on providing a continuous supply of greens 
throughout the summer. Pkt. 10c; 1 oz. 25¢e; % Ib. 60c. 
Mustard Spinach. A new boiling vegetable, healthful and pal- 
atable. Has a pleasant flavor, and many who do not like 
true Spinach will relish it. Cut within a month of sowing seed. 
Pkt. 10c; 1 oz. 20c. 
Giant Nobel. Large, smooth, deep green leaves, thick arrow- 
shaped with round tip. Very prolific. Popular with canners 
as well as home gardeners. 

SPINACH, IMPROVED THICK LEAVED 
Tampala—New! Delicious green vegetable, so different in 
flavor to other vegetables used as “greens’’ that it is difficult 
to compare it to any of them. It does well in hot weather 
and will keep on producing all summer. Pkt. 15e. 
WATERMELONS 
1 oz. to 100 ft., 34 Ibs. per Acre. 
Culture. W.atermelons thrive best on light, well-drained soils, 
but give good results on any good rich garden soil properly 
drained and cultivated. Plant after weather is settled and 
ground warm. Hills 8 feet apart each way, well-rotted manure 
worked into each hill, Pkt. 10c; 1 oz. 20c; %4 Ib. 60c. 
Klondike. New; wilt resistant. For genuine merit the Klondike 
is Surpassed by no other melon. The seeds are quite small, 
the color brown mottled black, while the flesh is a distinctive 
shade of red. The rind is dark green, and although thin, it is 
still a good shipper because it does not wilt. The shape is long 
and the average weight 20 pounds. The seed being so small 
one pound contains as many as two pounds of most other 
varieties. Pkt. 10c; 1 oz. 20c; 14 Ib. 60c. 
Halbert Honey. An early maturing variety suited to the North- 
ern states; vigorous and very productive. Melons 18 to 20 
inches long. Skin dark, glossy green; flesh beautiful crimson, 
tender, sweet and delicious. 
Cole’s Early. The Northern states’ favorite. As an early melon 
it is the standard of high quality; in sugary delicious crisp- 
ness, flavor and melting tenderness, it is the top-notcher. It is 
oblong shaped, about 20 inches long, 12 inches through. 
Kleckley Sweets. It is, without question, the most desirable 
variety to plant for home use or near-by markets. The fruits 
are very attractive, oblong in form, and have a glossy dark 
green skin. The rind is unusually thin, with the flesh ripening 
close to it. The color of the flesh is a beautiful bright scarlet. 
The heart is broad and remarkably solid. The white seeds are 
placed close to the rind. The melons average 18 to. 20 inches 
in length by 10 to 12 inches in diameter. 
“King and Queen’. Winter Watermelon. Spherical shape, 
ivory shell, pink center, seeds black. A luscious, valuable 
winter melon, hardy, a good drought-resister. Ripens every 
melon in less than 120 days. Keeps for ninety days if not 
bruised. Shell very hard and melon ripens to within % inch 
OESIC, 
Black-Seeded Ice Cream Watermelon. Grown extensively in 
Wenatchee and Yakima sctions of Washington. A splendid 
shipping melon, does exceptionally well in any soil which 
grows melons. Almost round, pink meated, black seeded, a 
fine keeper. Drought-resistant, ripens early. 
Citron. Green seeded. Used only for preserving, extremely 
productive. Fruits round, flesh white and solid. 
White Seeded Ice Cream. Fruits almost round, rind thin, 
medium green, Flesh pink, sweet. Matures early. A fine 
keeper. 

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