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Enthusiastic comments from home gar- 
deners, commercial growers and ex- 
periment station trials throughout the 
country, show the Burpee Hybrid 
Cucumber, like hybrid corn, to be 
more vigorous growing and more 
productive than any of the best 
standard varieties. 
The report of Michigan 
State College on slicing cu- 
cumber trials last year 
shows Burpee Hybrid 
far exceeded all open 
pollinated varieties 
370 
Burpee Hybrid 
60 days. High resistance 
to mosaic and downy mil- 
dew are the outstanding at- 
tributes of this true first genera- 
tion hybrid white spine, slicing 
type cucumber. Vines are extremely 
tested in pounds of vigorous, long lived and bear an 
fruits harvested abundance of well-formed green fruits 
per hill, double of handsome appearance, 8 in. and more 
to four times long, 214 in. wide, square at both ends with 
as much, de- medium seed cavity and crispy, white flesh of 
pending on excellent quality. Burpee Hybrid Cucumber 
variety. 
outyields open pollinated varieties because the 
vines continue to produce their fruits most pro- 
fusely for a long time after the others have ceased. 
Pkt. (30 seeds) 30¢; 2 pkts. 55¢; 3 pkts. 75¢; 
5 pkts. $1.20; 14 oz. $2.75; oz. $4.75 
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Girls hand pollinating cucumber blossoms to produce the Burpee Hybrid Cucumber. This picture was 
talken on Floradale Farms. Similar pollinating is.done by girls at Fordhook. ‘4 
