KERR-LANGEN SEED COMPANY 
: SPRING : 
“GARDEN GOSSIP" 
Telephone San Mateo DI 3-2286 
SOMETHING NEW 
Each year throughout the United States trials are conducted in various 
locations. These are the trials in which the various plant breeders enter the 
flowers and vegetables they think are advances on existing varieties or new 
varieties. The entries receiving most votes by the various judges are given 
awards in accordance with the number of votes polled. This year the top 
award, a gold medal, was given to a new variety of hybrid corn called 
“lochief." Try it in the home garden, it is very much worth while. The highest 
award to a flower was given to a new type of Tithonia, commonly called Mexi- 
can sunflower. Most of you will remember the old type which grew too tall for 
the average garden. This new one called “Torch” grows about three and a 
half feet high and is a bright scarlet color. Sow it the same time as Zinnias. 
It is a valuable addition to the summer and fall flowers and has the tremen- 
dous advantage of seeming resistance to insects and diseases. We list here- 
with all of the All American winners. All of these packets are priced at twenty 
five cents each. For one dollar we will send you five packets post paid, your 
own selection. Incidentally the cantaloupe and the water melon listed may do 
well in the bay area as they ripened last year in climates where the summers 
are short and cool. Remember all these flower and vegetable novelties at 
twenty five cents per packet or any five of your choice for one dollar. 
Vegetables 
Corn lIochief Hybrid 
Watermelon New Hampshire Midget 
Cucumber Sure Crop Hybrid . 
Muskmelon Granite State 
Cabbage O-S Cross Hybrid 
Corn Golden State Hybrid 
Corn Big Mo Hybrid 
Tomato Urbana 
Mustard Prizewinner 
Flowers 
Tithonia Torch | 
Marigold Glitters 
we would like our “Garden Gossip” readers to Practice is successive planting. 
Do not plant long rows at one time. Stagger your planting in order to-extend 
Half hardy vegetables (Beans, Corn, Cucumber, Squash,” etc.) should be 
weather in late fall. Most vegetable and flower seed will germinate in the 
average soil if planted by the furrow method. Make a straight line along a one 
by four board with the corner of your hoe. Make it about one inch ltd for 
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