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Cucumber, Straight Eight 
Plant Tillinghast’s Cucumber 
1 oz. to 100 ft., 3 to 4 Ibs. per acre. 
CULTURE—Sow in warm loamy soil, en- 
riched with well rotted manure if possible, 
when weather becomes settled and warm, 
usually after May ist. Thin to 4 or 5 
vlants to a hill. For pickles sow from the 
middle of June to middle of July. Water 
freely. : 
LONG GREEN IMPROVED. This is un- 
doubtedly the best variety of cucumber 
for all uses grown. It produces an abun- 
dance of fruit and is unsurpassed either 
for market gardening or for the home 
Barden. Pkg. 10c; oz. 20c; 4 Ib. 60c. 
*STRAIGHT 8. (All-America Gold Medal 
Award for 1935.) This outstanding new 
variety produces smooth cylindrical fruits 
about eight inches in length and about 
1% inches in diameter. Fruits well round- 
ed at the end and free from objectionable 
striping or tipping. Equally fine for ship- 
ping or for home use. Pkg. 10c; oz. 20c; 
Y% Ib. 60c. 
IMPROVED WHITE SPINE. This is one 
of the best sorts for early table use, as it 
will mature fruits a little earlier than the 
Long Green. Fruits usually straight and 
light green in color. Pkg. 10c; oz. 20c; 
Ya tb. 60c. 
x*xLEMON CUCUMBER. A dainty little 
cucumber resembling a lemon in size and 
shape. Its flavor, which differs some- 
what from other varieties, makes ot fine 
either for slicing or for salads. Pkg. 10c; 
oz. 20c; '%4 Ib. 60c. 
SMALL GHERKIN (for Pickles). While 
this is not a true cucumber, it is grown 
and used in a similar manner. It is very 
prolific, with pale green spines over the 
entire surface of the fruits. Pkg. 15c; 
oz. 35c. 
BOSTON PICKLING. This is a very pro- 
ductive variety and one of the most pop- 
ular kinds used for pickling. The fruits 
are of medium size, very smooth and 
bright green in color. The flesh is crisp 
and tender. Pkg. 10c; oz. 20c; 4 Ib. 60c. 

Kale or Borecole 
1 oz. to 100 ft., 4 to 5 Ibs. per acre. 
CULTURE—The culture is practically the 
same as that of late Cabbage, but as the 
plants will withstand several degrees of 
frost they can grow late into the Fall. 
Many think Kale best after the first heavy 
frost. 
GREEN CURLED. The plants of this va- 
riety are two to four feet in height and 
bear an abundance of long plume-like 
leaves. The leaf edges are deeply cut and 
very curly. Very seldom injured by freez- 
ing in Western Washington or Oregon. 
Pkg. 10c; oz. 35c. 
DWARF CURLED SCOTCH. A finely 
curled low growing and hardy variety, 
well adapted for making greens. This va- 
riety is used largely for garnishing, as 
the leaves are of a beautiful shade of 
green. This variety is also very hardy. 
Pkg. 10c; oz. 35c. 
THOUSAND HEADED or COW KALE. 
Thousand Headed Kale is one of the most 
valuable of all winter crops for the dairy- 
men and poultrymen. It is a very hardy 
plant belonging to the cabbage family, 
which grows, in many cases, well over 
four feet in height, while the central stalk 
produces an abundance of long, broad 
leaves which are of great value as a 
green winter feed. Many poultrymen use 
it almost exclusively as a source of green 
feed during the winter. Pkg. 10c; oz. 20c; 
Ye Ib. 60c; 1 Ib. $1.50. 
Leek 
YS oz. to 100 ft., 4 Ibs. per acre. 
LARGE AMERICAN FLAG. This vege- 
table belongs to the onion family and is 
a good fall and winter substitute for green 
onions. It is very fine for flavoring soup 
and other cooking. The leaves are flat 
and the stems large and bulbous. Pkg. 
10c; oz. 60c. 

Lettuce, New York or Los Angeles 
_ing February until the middle of March, — 























LETTUCE 
CULTURE—Sow the seed in hotbeds dur- _ 
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frames, leaving about 6 to 8 inches -be- — 
tween the plants. As soon as weather be 
comes suitable, transfer to open ground 
inches between the plants in the rows. 
Yy oz. to 100 ft., 3 Ibs. per acre. 
kNEW YORK or LOS ANGELES. This 
wonderful variety of lettuce is undoubted- 
ly one of the finest, both for the market 
and for the home garden. It forms a 
large, tight, crisp head that is very pop- 
ular with the market gardeners and is 
much used as a fall and winter lettuce on __ 
the markets. The outer leaves are dark 
green and frilled at the edges, while the 
inner leaves are very tender and beauti- 
fully blanched. Pkg. 10c; oz. 25c; '%4 Ib. 
75c. 
HANSON. One of the very best. Large 
heads, sweet and crisp. If you want your 
lettuce to head, plant this kind and thin 
out, or transplant to several inches apart. 
Pkg. 10c; oz. 25c; '% Ib. 75c. 
BIG BOSTON. Very large, smooth leaved, 
solid-heading variety, grown more exten- 
sively throughout the east and south than 
any other. It is congenial to all climates, 
a good shipper. In flavor it probably ex- 
cels other smooth-leaved varieties. Pkg. 
10c; oz. 25c; 14 Ib. 75c. 
BLACK SEED SIMPSON. Large early; 
very nice and desirable; slow to run to 
seed; tender a long time. Pkg. 10c; oz. 
25c; 4 Ib. 75c. 
EARLY PRIZE HEAD BROWN. Large 
leaves tinged with brownish red; very 
tender, crisp and sweet, forming a large, 
loose head. Pkg. 10c; oz. 25c; %4 Ib. 75c. 
GRAND RAPIDS. This is the kind of | 
lettuce that is generally used for growing 
under glass in winter. Pkg. 10c; oz. 25c; 
Yq Ib. 75c. fia 
Chicken Lettuce 
CHICKEN LETTUCE. This is-a rough,” 
rank growing variety of lettuce that has — 
no head but produces a large bunch of 
leaves. For this reason it is an ideal — 
source of green feed for chickens, and ~ 
should find great favor with poultrymen 
had Pk Pkg. 10c; oz. 20c; 14 Ib. 60c; — 
Cos or Romaine Lettuce _ 
\ 
WHITE PARIS. This kind © 
of lettuce is distinguished 
by itslong, narrow, spoon- 
shaped leaves, folding into 
loose, sugar-loaf shaped 
heads which blanch better 
by ‘having the outer leaves” 
drawn about them and 
tied. The quality is di 
tinct. from “that ef thi 
Cabbage Lettuces and b 
many is considered ve 
superior. Pkg. 10c; oz. 25 
Yq Ib. 75c. . 
