CUCUMBERS 
One package of seed will sow 25 hills; 1 ounce about 100 hills. 
Cucumbers should be raised in every home garden. They can be grown to perfecti 
Is over, an inch deep in hills 4 to 6 feet apart each way, dropping six seeds in a hill. 
Cultivate thoroughly until runners make this impossible. 
Make a second sowing o 
a hill. 
one of the new DDT sprays or dusts. 

flavor. 
Cubit. 
York State—A New Disease-Resistant Cucumber Pickle for Your Garden 
Highmoor. An _ outstanding new slicing 
kind developed by Dr. Russell Bailey of the 
Maine Experiment Station. The fruit is of very 
high quality and thick meated, 8 to 9 inches 
long, cylinder-shaped with blunt, round ends 
and very dark green in color. The plant is very 
vigorous growing and a splendid producer of 
good looking fruit, nearly immune to scab and 
resistant to mosaic and downy mildew. 
Pkg. 15c; oz. 40c; % Ib. $1.15 
Longfellow. Handsome, solid deep green 
fruit that holds its attractive color long after 
it has been picked. Straight, cylinder-shaped 
Cukes 12 to 14 inches long and 21% inches 
thick. Pkg: 15c; oz. 45c; Y% Ib. $1.25 
improved Long Green. AJ standard va- 
riety for slicing and largely for pickling. The 
vines are vigorous and productive. The Cu- 
cumbers are long, slender, dark green, with 
warts and spines well distributed. Popular in 
home and market garden. 
Pkg. 10c; oz. 40c; Y% Ib. $1.15 

Cucumbers are divided into two classes. The 
“Black Spine’’ and the ‘‘White Spine.” The 
spines being the bristles showing on the fruit 
when it is young. The black spined kinds turn 
yellow when ripe. The white spines turn white. 

FERTILE POTS 
Make Stronger Plants and 
Earlier Crops 
Pots made of plant food and manure that 
hold moisture and feed the plant as it 
grows. Plant the seed right in the pot and 
set pot and all right in the ground when the 
time comes to plant your garden. The plant 
suffers no set-back from transplanting and 
the roots grow right through the pot. 
No. 214 Ps gig et in. diameter). Prepaid 
Carton.of) 12h Anse ete. eee $0.60 
Carton*oty 850s ere ete ee 1.85 
Cartonzof, 100. ess oe oe, eee 3.10 
Cartonlofs 2750 ae. osetia eee 5.65 
No. 3 (about 3 in. diameter). 
Prepaid 
Carton of Melia seine. ete eee $0.75 
COrtOry Oh. 950) eee eee cto ae eee Ze 
Carron vofial OO tan ete iets chore 3.70 
Coron ipeeoOe seiriaisicd. ais tee 6:55 

Marketer. Rich dark green fruits, uniformly 
cylindrical in shape, slightly tapered ends and 
about 8 inches in length. Flesh thick, crisp, 
white, and of fine flavor. Vines are vigorous 
growing and bear unfailing big crops for a 
long season. This new variety is attracting the 
attention of commercial growers of quality Cu- 
cumbers and promises to be a most popular 
variety. Pkg..ldc;0ze40¢° 2 lb. S1eiS 
Mixed Cucumbers. Made up of the large 
slicing varieties and the smaller dills and 
picklers. Many gardeners have asked us for 
such a mixture as Cucumbers seem to do better 
when varieties are mixed in the garden and 
cross pollenized. 
Pkg. 15c¢; oz. 45¢c; Y% Ib. $1.25 
National Pickling. Anyone who likes the 
small sweet or sour pickles will want to grow 
a great patch of this new Cucumber. Like- 
wise, if you are partial to ‘‘dills,”” let the 
Cukes remain on the vines until they are of 
the right size. The vines are thrifty and 
bear heavy crops. We recommend to commer- 
cial pickle growers our stock of this pickler It 
will please their most critical trade. 
Pkg. 10c; oz. 35c; %4 Ib. 95c 

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on with ordinary care. 
When second set of leaves has formed, thin to 3 plants to 
If plants are attacked by beetles, spray with Bordeaux, arsenate of lead, or use 
f seed about 5 weeks later to furnish you with Cucumbers and pickles for preserving. 
Its color is dark green. < 
| small for finger and dill pickles. 
Marketer is one of the new Cucumbers with a very bright future 
Plant seed when danger from frost 
For earlier Cukes place Hotkaps over the seed after you plant 
| it. They keep the soil moist, bugs away, protect from frost. 
A and C. A popular Cucumber in the East both with the com- 
mercial grower and the home gardener. 
ping on account of its deep green color which is retained for an un- 
usually long time after picking—a feature especially desirable for those 
who send their Cucumbers to market. This white-spined Cucumber grows 
about 10 inches long and 21/4 inches thick. The fruits are straight and 
shapely and of very high quality. Flesh is crisp and of very delicious 
An outstanding kind for ship- 
Pkg. 10c; oz. 35c; VY Ib. 95c 
Cubit. All-America Bronze Medal for 1944. A splendid home and 
market garden kind, cylinder-shaped and about 8 inches long. The ends 
are blunt, making it an ideal slicing fruit. i 
green and the flesh firm and pure white. Very vigorous and very heavy 
bearing. We have heard some very complimentary things said about 
Many experienced gardeners like Cubit better than Marketer. 
Here we think Marketer is slightly better. 
The skin is lustrous dark 
Pkg. 15c; oz. 40c; 4 Ib. $1.15 
Early White Spine. Splendid kind to grow for ‘‘Dill’” pickles. An 
early, smooth, straight Cucumber 7 inches long and 21 inches thick. 
Excellent for slicing when fully grown or when 
A very productive variety. 
Pkg. 10c; oz. 35c; VY Ib. 95¢ 
Straight-8. Very prolific. This variety has 
made a strong appeal to local market garden- 
ers because of its size and appearance. The 
fruits are about 8 inches long and from 1% to 
2 inches in diameter, with rounded ends. The 
skin is deep green, while the flesh is pure 
white, crisp and tender. A good kind to grow 
under glass. Few seeas. 
Pkg. 15c; oz. 40c; Y%4 lb. $1.15 
Lemon Cucumber. This splendid Cucum- 
ber is nearly round, with yellow and green 
markings and smooth skin, similar to the lemon. 
The flesh is tender and crisp, with a sweetness 
and flavor surpassing all other Cucumbers. Fruit 
is from 2 to 3 inches in diameter, and of hand- 
some appearance. For pickling, either when 
green or ripe, they are unexcelled. Ready for 
table when fruits turn yellow. Pkg. 15c; oz. 45c 
York State Pickling. New mosaic-resist- 
ant kind developed by Dr. H. M. Munger of 
Cornell University that will bear an abundance 
of fine pickles in gardens where mosaic disease 
is so bad that other Cucumbers will not grow. 
Pkg. 15c;\0z. 45¢"4rlbu gino 
