VEGETABLES OF 
SPECIAL MERIT 
437 SENSATION HYBRID CUCUMBER — Improved Type. 
This is the ideal slicer for home use. Newly improved in color and type. Sen- 
sation yields great numbers of fine, uniform fruit from early till the end of the 
season. Hybrid vigor gives it the ability to resist disease, grow strongly and 
produce enormous numbers of its 8-inch, cylindrical, high quality fruit. The 
slicers have a medium dark green skin, and the flesh is firm, white and crisp 
excellent both in appearance and flavor. We recommend this great hybrid to 
all home gardeners. Pkt. (about 40 seeds) 30c; 14 Oz. $1.25; 14 Oz. $2.25; 
Oz. $3.35. 
432 OHIO MR 25—New—Fine for Pickles—Mosaic Resistant. 
Ohio MR 25 is an excellent new pickle that should bear all season long until frost. 
The vines have unusual vigor and high resistance to mosaic, and they hold 
up well after others are gone. Developed by the Heinz Co. and the Ohio 
Station, the fruit are of best pickling type, blocky and blunt-ended, firm and 
of medium dark green color with fine quality. An outstanding home garden 
variety and fine for commercial pickle growers also. 
Pkt. 20c; 4% Oz. 35c; Oz. 50c; 144 Lb. $1.20; 144 Lb. $1.75; Lb. $3.00. 
Rhode Island Red 
Rich, sweet flavor. 
Ohio 
MR 25 
Uniform 
shape 
in all sizes. 
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589 RHODE ISLAND RED 
Fine-Flavored Early Watermelon. 
Here is a watermelon of superb quality 
and fine appearance ripening early enough 
to make full crops even in short seasons. 
The bright pink-red flesh is solid and crisp, 
sugary sweet with a real rich watermelon 
flavor that everyone will enjoy. Devel- 
oped by Dr. Desmond Dolan, it has oval 
fruit of ideal size (8-12 lbs.) with attrac- 
tive dark green stripes and a firm rind. 
Rhode Island Red is a highly productive 
early type, and the best to eat of any we 
grow. Pkt. 25c; 44 Oz. 40c; Oz. 70c; 
14 Lb. $1.75; 4% Lb. $2.50. 
Our customer wrote: “J wish to say 
that I have never seen anything so 
effective to keep birds and rabbits 
away as FLYING DISCS. They 
sure are wonderful.’’ See page 82. 
560 DELICIOUS 51 MELONS—Best of the Early Kinds. 
A combination of earliness, high quality, fine appearance and good size 
that no other variety can equal. Well adapted to short season areas, 
this new strain adds fusarium wilt resistance to our famous Delicious 
melon, the best early kind to grow. The juicy sweet flesh is even thick- 
er, the flavor improved and the round or oval fruit are uniform and 
finely netted. Very early, it is a good yielder and a vigorous grower. 
Developed by Dr. H. M. Munger of Cornell. 
Pkt. 20c; % Oz. 35c; Oz. 65c; 14 Lb. $1.60; 14 Lb. $2.50. 
NEW—“NO-DAMP-OFF” SPHAGNUM MOSS —For starting seeds indoors 
Finely milled sphagnum moss provides a sure, safe and highly 
successful medium for growing your own plants from seed. It 
promotes rapid, uniform germination and practically eliminates 
damping-off, the disease that so often destroys seedlings. Use 
it alone or as a shallow layer over your regular soil. 
10 Oz. pkg. 95c; 2 cu. ft. size (wt. 6 lbs.) $3.25 postpaid. 
Sensation Hybrid—Heavy yields—fine fruit—disease resistant. | 
541 SALAD BOWL. | 
Perfect for the Home Garden. 
We think this is an ideal loose leaf garden 
lettuce. Easy to grow, pretty to look at and 
delightful to eat, it stays in prime condition 
practically all summer. The curled and wavy 
leaves form a decorative compact rosette, and | 
produce quantities of tender bright green let- 
tuce. Rich in vitamins A and C, it is healthful | 
and appetizing. 
Quick-growing but slow to bolt, Salad Bowl | 
stands the hottest weather and is wonderful 
anytime in spring, summer or fall. 
Pkt: 20¢c;: 4% Oz. 50c; Oz. 85c; 44 Lb. $2.25; 
14 Lb. $3.00. 
Salad Bowl 
Delicious 51—FEarly, productive, wilt resistant. 
