CUCUMBER 
Shipping Varieties (Continued) 
Improved Long Green (London) — Popular home 
garden variety, bearing large-fruited, dark green 
cukes of good quality, suitable for slicing, canning, 
and ripe pickling. Fruits are 11 inches long by 3% 
inches thick, with rounded ends, somewhat rough, 
and black spined. Turn yellow quickly when ma- 
ture. 75 days. 
Marketer — Choice shipping variety, vigorous, pro- 
lific, and early. Fruits are 8 inches long by 2% 
inches thick, uniform, slightly tapered, very dark 
green, slim, smooth, very attractive. Flesh is crisp, 
firm, good eating. White spined. 65 days. 
Straight Eight — A good shipping variety, early and 
prolific. Produces fruits uniform in size, shape an 
color, 8 inches long by 2 inches wide, cylindrical, 
smooth, and with crisp flesh. Fruit ends taper 
slightly, dark green with lighter green striping at 
' blossom end. White spined. 65 days. 
_ White Wonder — Novelty cucumber, bearing ivory- 
white fruits about 6 inches long by 3 inches thick, 
in semi-cluster. Quality and flavor are good. 60 days. 
| PICKLING VARIETIES:— 
' Chicago Pickling — Popular pickling variety for 
' home and market garden; used extensively by 
' pickle packers. Quality and type are good and 
_ uniform. Fruits are 6 inches long by 2% inches 
_ thick, somewhat tapered, medium green. 60 days. 
Lemon (Round Pickling) — A novelty cucumber of 
» excellent eating quality; producing fruit the size and 
» color of a large lemon, with white flesh and sweet 
} flavor. Used for pickling and for slicing. 65 days. 
) National Pickling — Choice pickling variety for all 
_ types of processing. Has excellent qualities, out- 
_ standing in uniformity and yield. Fruits are 6 inches 
_ by 2% inches, blunt ended, dark green, black 
_ spined. 55 days. : 
| West India Gherkin (Burr) — Small novelty pickle 
_ with fruits about 2 inches long by 1 inch thick, 
| heavily spined, light green, oval in shape. Makes 
: fine pickles when young. 60 days. 
CANTALOUPE and MUSKMELON 
| CULTURE: Plant as soon as soil has warmed up in 
’ the Spring, in hills about 5 feet by four feet apart. 
Use about six seeds per hill and thin out to two 
| plants per hill after seedlings are well up. Canta- 
| loupes grow best on a rich, light soil, which is kept 
watered, well-fertilized, and well-cultivated. 
_ VARIETIES:— 
| Banana — A long banana-shaped melon, growing 
| to 16 inches long and 5 inches thick, tapering at 
| both ends. Rind is lemon-colored and smooth; flesh 
_is pink and well-flavored. Popular home garden 
_ variety in some Southern states. 95 days. 
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