DESSERT SEED CO. EL CENTRO, CALIF. 


SQUASH, Winter, Continued Days to 
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Table Queen (Acorn or Des Moines) (C. pepo.). Skin very dark olive 
green of smooth texture and thin but deeply furrowed. Acorn 
shape, very distinct. A table squash of excellent flavor, flesh is 
orange yellow in color, dry and sweet. Cut in two and baked it 
makes a most delicious vegetable. A good yielder and a good mar- 
ket variety. 90 
Uconn. This is the bush form of Acorn or Table Queen. It takes up 
much less room than the vining type but yields quite as large a crop 
of fruits equal in size and equally delicious. Originated by Dr. 
Lawrence A. Curtis. 80 
TOBACCO 
(Nicotiana tobacum) (Annual) 
Connecticut Seed Leaf. Fine textured rich bright leaf, ripens and cures 
uniformly, medium leaf stems; the earliest maturing sort for the 
Middlewest, Northwest and Northeast. Not widely planted in the 
South. A hardy cigar type. 
Havana (American Grown). A vigorous stocky plant, produces heavy 
yields of large, long leaves which, when cured, are of fine texture, 
thin and with a pleasant flavor. Used extensively for cigar wrap- 
pers due to its elasticity. Stems of leaf are medium to heavy. An 
early variety, not widely planted in the Northern States. 
White Burley Improved. Largely planted in Kentucky and other sec- 
tions having limestone soils. It is a heavy producer of long, 
broad leaves that cure to a rich bright color. Good elastic texture, 
suitable for wrappers and plug fillers and used in pipe and cigarette 
blends. Stems medium to large. Sturdy stalks, somewhat resist- 
ant to root rot. 
Gold Dollar. Developed by Dr. Coker of Hartsville, South Carolina, to 
meet the need tor a uniform, bright leaved, flue-cured tobacco. 
It produces medium sized leaves of extra fine silky texture. Cured 
color ranges from bright yellow to orange, depending largely on 
soil texture; the lighter the soil the brighter the color. As planted 
in the Carolinas and Georgia it gives good yields of extra quality 
cigarette leaf. Aromatic. Fairly hardy. 
Mammoth Gold. Another introduction of Dr. Coker’s, is widely planted 
in the Carolinas and Georgia as a flue-cured cigarette type. With 
a larger stalk and leaf than Gold Dollar it produces uniformly a 
fine textured, broad leaf that cures to a dark lemon or rich orange 
color. Leaf stems small to medium; aromatic, fairly hardy. 
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