Marketer Cucumber 
CUCUMBER 
One ounce of seed will plant 50 hills; 2 pounds an acre 
_ Curture. Sow seed after danger of frost 
Is past, using eight to ten seeds to hills 
spaced 3 to 5 feet apart. Soil B. Vitamins A, 
B,C,G. 
A&C. (68 days.) Vines healthy, robust and 
reistant to disease, producing white- 
spined Cucumbers about 10 inches long. 
Boston Pickle. (58 days.) Productive. 
Short, bright green fruits for pickles, hold- 
ing their color well. Black spined. 
Colorado. (68 days.) Slender, dark green. 
Vigorous, productive. The finest slicing 
Cucumber. 
Early Fortune. (63 days.) A great favorite 
with our Anne Arundel County farmers 
for its early maturity, productiveness, 
uniformity in large size, and dark green 
color. 
English Forcing Telegraph. (75 days.) 
Ideal for growing under glass. Enormous 
fruits, generally 1144 to 2 feet long and 3 
inches in diameter. 
Hybrid Cucumber. (60 days.) Outyields 
open-pollinated varieties; on account of its 
long bearing period, it will produce long 
after others have ceased. It is of the white 
spine type, with handsome dark green 
fruit 8 inches long or more and up to 24% 
inches thick. The white flesh of excellent 
quality. makes it the ideal slicing Cu- 
cumber. 
Improved Long Green. (68 days.) Long 
and crisp. Fruits deep green, slightly 
tapered, heavily warted. A popular and 
reliable variety for pickles. 
Japanese Climbing. (64 days.) This is 
quite resistant to disease and _ insects. 
Good quality; dark green. 
Marketer. (70 days.) Because of the fine 
fruit and exceptionally heavy crop. Mar- 
keter is rapidly becoming the outstanding 
favorite with growers of quality Cucum- 
bers. The slender, beautiful deep green 
fruits measure 8 to 10 inches long. Genuine 
originator’s stock. 
National Pickling. (56 days.) Fruit 
straight, with blunt ends, black-spined, 
deep green. High yielder. 
National Pickling Cucumber 
Palmetto. (67 days.) A downy mildew- 
resistant variety, developed by Dr. W. C. 
Barnes, Clemson College, S. C., to meet 
growing conditions in the South, where this 
disease is always a threat to production. 
Fruit 8 inches long, 2% inches in diameter, 
dark green, with slightly pointed ends; 
thick flesh and small seed area. 
Small Gherkin or Burr. (60 days.) Used 
only for pickling while young and tender. 
Straight 8. (62 days.) Attractive dark green 
Cucumbers of symmetrical form, 8 to 9 
inches long, and of the highest quality. 
White Spine. (60 days.) An old popular 
sort. Quite early and prolific. Fruit 8 
inches long, 2% tnches in diameter, with 
blunt ends. Color medium green. 
CHICORY 
Soil B. Vitamins B, G. 
Large-rooted. (120 days.) The roots are 
dried and ground and used for flavoring or 
mixed with coffee. It can also be served 
like  salsify. 
Witloof. (140 days.) French Endive. This 
is grown like endive except that late in 
_ summer it is gradually banked up like 
celery. It is eaten raw as a salad, and is 
also sometimes cooked like endive. 
We pay postage on packets, ounce and 14 
pounds. For larger quantities, see chart on 
page l. 
CAULIFLOWER 
Dry Weather 
Early Snowball 
CARDOON 
CELTUCE 
CUCUMBER 
Early Fortune 
CAULIFLOWER 
One ounce of seed will produce 1500 plants 
CuttTurRE. Sow seed in hotbeds or win- 
dow-boxes in February or March and trans- 
plant in coldframes. When hard frosts are 
over, plant outdoors. For second crop, sow 
in April and set out in May. For late crop, 
sow in June and set out in July. Plants 
should be set 2 feet apart in the row. Soil A. 
Vitamins A, B, C,G. 
Dry Weather. (66 days.) The great 
drought-resisting variety. The large, 
snow-white heads are protected with a 
liberal growth of foliage. The ideal va- 
riety to plant for summer use. 
EARLY SNOWBALL. (55 days.) Ex- 
tremely early dwarf variety, producing 
magnificent white heads of fine quality. 
Well adapted to hotbed culture. 
CAULIFLOWER PLANTS. See page 23. 
Early Snowball Cauliflower 
Cardoon 
A perennial about 3 feet high, grown for 
its leaf stalks, which when blanched are 
used in salads or cooked and served like 
asparagus. Vitamins A, B, C, G. 
Celtuce (Burpee’s) 
A Chinese vegetable, easy to grow and very 
palatable. Grows like lettuce. The young 
leaves may be eaten like a salad and the raw 
stalks like celery or carrots. The cooked 
stalks have a pleasing taste. Soil A. Vita- 
mins A, B, C,G. 
Pkt. 
25c and $0 50 
25c and 50 
hoz. 
$1 25 
1 25 
Pkt. Oz. 
$0 10 $0 25 
10 
10 
10 
English Forcing Telegraph. Pkt. of 12 seeds 25c; 100 seeds $1.25. 
Hybrid Cucumber 
Improved Long Green 
Japanese Climbing 
Marketer 
National Pickling 
Palmetto 
Small Gherkin (Burr) 
Straight 8 
White Spine 
CHICORY 
Large-rooted 
Witloof (French Endive) 
5 pkts. for $1.00 .. 3 
10 Vegetable Seeds 
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