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 perfection with ordinary Sic. ae pbb tress i 2 
is over, an inch deep in hills 4 to 6 feet apart each way, dropping six sezds in a hill. When second set o ane ordegund -Crsah ate otelce iene 
a hill. Cultivate thoroughly until runners make this impossible. If plants are attacked by beetles, spray with see nd. pickles "foe preserving 
one of the new DDT sprays or dusts. Make a second sowing of seed about 5 weeks later to furnish you with cucumbers and p f 
For earlier Cukes place Hotkaps over the 
seed after you plant it. They keep the soil 
moist, bugs away, protect from frost. 
Early White Spine. splendid kind to 
grow for ‘Dill’ pickles. An early, smooth, 
straight Cucumber 7 inches long and 2 inch- 
es thick. Its color is dark green. Excellent for 
slicing when fully grown or when small for 
finger and dill pickles. A very productive va- 
riety. PkomlOc oz? 5cu NZ lbeesc 
Early Sure Crop A new F-1 Hybrid. All- 
America Winner 1950. The outstanding good 
qualities of this hybrid are its thriftiness of 
growth and ability to produce cukes for a 
much longer period than the ordinary kinds. 
The plant starts to grow very quickly in 
the spring and is resistant to disease. The 
fruit is about 8 inches long, cylindrical in 
shape and has very blunt ends. Skin lustrous 
dark green and flesh firm and pure white. 
Quality very good. A splendid Cucumber for 
your garden. 
Pkg. of 35 seeds for 25c; 2 pkgs. 45¢; 
5 pkgs. $1.00 
improved Long Green. 4 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. 
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Lemon Cucumber. This cucumber 
is round, with yellow and green markings. 
and smooth ‘skin, similar to the lemon. 
Flesh tender, crisp, and sweet. Fruit is 
‘Marketer is the Most Popular of All Cucumbers 
Niagara. Developed by Dr. Henry Mun- 
ger of Cornell University. The first  slic- 
ing cuke resistant to mosaic. Vine husky 
and large leaved like the hybrid Early Sure 
from 2 to 3 inches in diameter, and of 
handsome appearance. For pickling, either 
when green or ripe, they are unexcelled. 
Ready for table when fruits turn yellow. 
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Marketer. rich dark green fruits, uni- 
formly 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 com- 
mercial growers of quality Cucumbers and 
promises to be a most popular variety. 
Lop, I5XeR Gra, sires Wie Uloy, “Silo 
Mixed Cucumbers. Made up of the 
large slicing varieties and the small 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. 
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National Pickling. Anyone who likes 
the small sweet or sour pickles will want 
to grow a great patch of this new Cucum- 
ber. Likewise, 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 rcom- 
mend to commercial pickle growers our 
stock of this pickler. It will please their 
most critical trade. 
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A New Hybrid Cucumber, 
Early Sure Crop 
Crop. Fruit is 8 .to 10 inches long, dark 
green skin and crisp, white flesh of splen- 
did quality. In mosaic infested soils where 
other cukes fail Niagara will make a crop. 
ldap; exer (or4y Bisye WA, lloy, MAIO) 
Ohio MR 17 Resistant to mosaic dis- 
ease. A little longer and smoother fruit 
than either National Pickling or Yorkstate. 
Fruit is blunt ended, dark green in color, 
attractive and fairly uniform in shape. The 
vines are vigorous, healthy growing, with 
large, thick leaves. Used extensively on 
mosaic infested lands in the pickle grow- 
ing areas of the country. 
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Straight-8s. Very prolific. The fruits 
are about 8 inches long and from 114 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 seeds, 
sale Ken rer4, sister WAy (lop, Saito) 
York State Pickling. New mosaic- 
resistant 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. 
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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. 
“Lemon Cucumber 
National Pickling 
Cucumber 
