Early Michigan 
STRAIGHT-8 
For Dependable Yields 
64 days. Fruits rich deep green; straight, 
cylindrical; about 8 inches long and 1% 
inches thick, Superb home garden variety 
for slicing and salad use; good for home 
pickling; ideal for ‘‘Bread and butter’’ 
pickles. Fruits streamlined for packing and 
shipping. Straight-8 has natural capacity 
for extremely high yields under favorable 
conditions; plants bear relatively high pro- 
portions of fruit-producing female flowers 
and correspondingly low proportions of non- 
productive male flowers. 
Partie JAPANESE CLIMBING 
(Wilt Resistant) 
60 days. A good variety to save garden space as the 
vigorous and healthy vines throw out strong tendrils, 
enabling them to climb trellis, wire netting or any other 
suitable support. The most wilt resistant of all. Fruits 
long and thick, crisp, tender and of good quality. If 
kept picked, the vines will bear freely all season. 
WHITE WONDER 
This white cucumber is white at all stages of growth and, 
when about 3 inches long, make very attractive pickles when 
packed in glass containers. The quality is also all that could be 
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desired. If allowed to mature, the fruits are about 7 inches 
long- by 2% inches thick. They are exceptionally mild and are 
excellent fo& slicing. Bear in great abundance, beginning early 
and continuing until fall. Especially recommended for the 
home garden. 
Cucumbers actually aid digestion. Most digestive difficulties are due to soaking 
: in salt water too long. They contain vitamins B, and G. 
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Cucumber Seed Delivered Prepaid at the Following Prices 
One ounce of seed for 100 hills; 2 to 3 Ibs. to the acre. 
We grow our own Cucumber seed and know it to be strictly high grade. .All 
our Cucumber seed is treated before shipping. This treatment controls damping- 
off, also several serious leaf diseases carried on the seed, such as anthracnose, 
angular leaf spot and macrosporium leaf spot. Treating the seed is one more 
added service to our already high-bred superior stocks and will make your crops 
more dependable. Don’t run the risk of planting untreated cucumber seed when 
our Michigan grown treated seed costs no more. 
EARLY MICHIGAN | a 
The Earliest Slicing Cucumber 
54 days. Originated by Mr. William E. Vail, of New York, 
in 1938. In fine slicing condition in 54 days or less. It is of the Early Fortune 
type, the dark green fruits being slim with well-rounded ends, and averaging 
7 inches long. Good for pickles, as well as slicing, as a great many fruits set 
at one time. Its ability to continue bearing over a long period makes this variety 
ideal for the home garden, as well as for the early market. : 
A & © or COLORADO 
Bears Over Long Season 
and introduced by us 
68 days. 
tically free from white stripes. 
This extremely dark green cucumber holds its color well and is prac- 
¥ruit is 244x9 inches in size and tapered at both 
ends. It bears over a long season and is fine for shipping and the home garden, 
The Leading Shipper 
65 days. This very uniform and prolific bearer has earned its way as “the 
leading shipper.” Fruits are dark green, 214x7% inches in size and slightly 
tapered at each end. It has practically no white striping or tipping. 
Blight Resistant 
64 days. Highmoor not only resists blight, but is one of the most productive of 
the slicing varieties. Dark green fruits are 2%4x9 inches in size with uniform, 
rounded ends. Very attractive. Ideal for shipping as well as for the home gar- 
den. If blight is your problem, be sure to give this variety a trial. 
Early Fortune 
63 days. Our strair is unusually uniform. 
Producing fruits 9” in length and 2%” in.di- 
ameter. The dark glossy-green color does not 
fade when shipping over long distances. It is 
disease resistant and the flesh of the slender 
fruits is white, firm and crisp. 
CHINA LONG 
2 Feet Long 
72 days. This remarkable cucumber f. 
the Orient is of finer quality than any 
variety. Fruits 20 inches to 2 feet in 
and only 2 inches through. Skin dee 
nearly smooth, the spines being few a 
small: Flesh white, firm, extremely ¢ 
the nearest seedless of any variety. Vines 
vigorous and have shown great ability to pr 
CUCUMBER BARGAIN 
1 Early Michigan, 1 Colorado, 1 National duce under adverse conditions as it is mo 
Pickle, 1 White Wonder. SSHISteIay, : 
All 4 pkts. only 45c¢ LONGELLO 
70 days. A remarkable outdoor variety 
IMPROVED LONG GREEN 
Best for "Chunk Pickles" 
67 days. Fruits 12 to 13 inches in length. 
Fine for slicing and whole pickles, but its solid, 
crisp flesh makes’it most popular for chunk 
pickles. More widely used 
for this purpose than any 
other variety. 
ducing long, slender, dark green fruits” 
command the same high market price 
quality hothouse Cucumbers. An ideal tyj 
packing in fancy flats for shipping to 
The fruits are best when 10 inches long 
inches in diameter, but when matured 
12 to 15 inches long by 2% inches in d 
Suitable for greenhotse growing, 4 
Lb. 5 Lbs. 
Ave. GS, Or Colgpada. as: sreticnin oiooe $0.10 $0.30 $0.85 
China Long... (42 0z. 75c).... -25 
Miirhy Portuese hes. vetoes ace ot, -10 boo Ay 6 
Marly "Nichiganccer.* . vce ee ee 15 =o. 1.00 
Highmoor (Blight Resistant)......... AS -35 1.00 
improved Lone 'Green, .. h8..2. 0050, 10° 30 -85 
Japanese Climbing... ..2,...... 00. -10 -30 85 
QO ErCUONW ..8 eee eee weed -10 -30 85 
War ever-. laa: tate. een He -10 -30 85 
Serpent Or Sanke..”. 5s 2syace.. ke -20 
trap ht-8; oF ve. PME se, Se -10 -30 -85 
White: Wonder >.) tena eee 15 35 1.00 
Burgess’ Pickle Blend....... -10 woe -80. 
; Chicago Pickling........... -10 ae -65 
Pickling Everbearing. <...0...60+..% -10 25 By A=) 
Varieties; Heinz Special.............. -10 sae -80 
National Pickling. ......... -10 -25 -75 
EOMONG sais. desk ee 15 -40 1.25 
West India Gherkin........ 15 35 1.00 
All-Purpose Mixture........ 10 -30 -85 
| $2.50 
$11.25 | $21.50 
2.25 10.60 19.00 
2.90 13.00 24.00 
2.30 13.00 | 24.00 
2.50 11.25 21.50 
2.50 11.25 21.50 
2.50 11.25 21.50 
2.50 11.25 21.50 
2.50 27525 21.50 
2.90 
Son ee 20.00 - - 
; ts 16.50 : 3 
2.25 | 10.00 | 19. y} 
2:25 | 10-00 | 19:00 Serpent or Snake Cucumb: 
2.25. 10.00 } 19.00 This curious Cucumber resembles a green snake. The ] 
as fruits coil into most realistic serpent-like shapes. They 
men 2 to 5 feet in length, sometimes attaining a length o 
the above photograph, shqwing six of thé cucumbers 
an 
rule, to show the comparative size. ¥ 
