TABLE COWPEAS (Lubia) 
An edible cowpea from Israel. 
Tender, crisp, stringless, excellent 
bean-like green pods grow 20 inches 
and sometimes longer. Delicious pre- 
pared like stringbeans. Immune to 
rust, bear for a long period. Large, 
beautiful sweet pea-like blossoms 
are a light pink tinged with lavender. 
Having a climbing habit, they must 
be trained on poles, a fence or trellis. 
For maximum yield, 3 or 4 seeds are 
planted in hills when soil has warmed 
up, spacing a yard apart in both di- 
rections and without thinning out. 
Pkt. (about 25 seeds) 25c 
EDIBLE JUTE 
A strange type of spinach, botanically known 
as (corchorus olitorius, tiliaceae) from Arabia, 
called in Arabic “Melukhiye.” Very popular in 
Arabic countries as summer vegetable greens. 
A quick grower. The seed is sown broadcast in 
small beds, which are irrigated. Plants are slen- 
der, tall and marketed by cutting just above the 
ground and putting in small bundles as shown 
in the photograph. Average marketable length 
is about two feet. The leaves and tender growth 
are cooked like spinach. Due to its rapid re- 
growth, several cuttings may be harvested in 
one season. Being an annual in maturity, this 
rare form of spinach can be grown in most of 
our states. 
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Pkt. 25c; 14 oz. 50c; 4 oz. 90c 
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CHILEAN HAND MELON 
A new and rare midget muskmelon from Chile, 
known in Spanish as “Melon de mano Chileano.” 
The melons attain a size of only a large apple 
and are equal if not superior in the New Hampshire Midget Water- 
flavor to our finest cantaloupe. Very melon, recently introduced, can have 
small seed cavity, extremely small 
seeds. Originating from a tempera- 
ture zone in Chile, it has also been 
successfully grown in the tropics, 
proving a wide adaptability under 
different climatic conditions. Now 
a companion in your refrigerator, by 
planting this new Chilean Midget 
Muskmelon. We were able to im- 
port only a very limited supply of 
this seed to list in this season’s cat- 
alogue. Pkt. (about 12 seeds) 50c 
INSECT PROBLEM IN ECUADOR 
Another proof that nature has a balance 
and able to keep normal functional propor- 
tions when left to take its course is proven 
in the undeveloped and primitive country 
of Ecuador. A land where chemical fungi- 
cides and insecticides are virtually un- 
known, the Ecuadorean’s garden is fairly 
a roaming paradise for small harmless 
lizzards of the chameleon species which 
used to be so popular in our states years 
ago as live ornaments on the coat lapel. 
The odd creatures of all shapes and sizes, 
sometimes 18 inches in length, seem to be 
attracted to gardens, knowing they are a 
haven and lure for insects, which they pri- 
marily live on. With their long tongues 
and sticky substance on the end they creep 
up close enough, the tongue darts out and 
empales the insect or worm. Thus the liz- 
zard is a guard over Ecuadorean gardens. 
