HYCROP PICKLING 
HYBRID CUCUMBER 
DISEASE RESISTANT PICKLING TYPE 
Introduced To The Trade In 1954 As An Outstanding Pickler 
54 DAYS 
FRUIT — 544-7 x 214-234. This new pickling cucumber 
is more slender and deeper in skin color than many 
old-fashioned pickling types, and also blunt at the 
fruit tips. Very tender skin and sweet flavor. Black 
spine. 
VINE — Vigorous, with good leaf coverage, resistant to 
Mosaic and may also show tendency to resist mildew 
and spot rust. 
Hycrop is a three purpose variety as it can be used 
= in the gherkin, dill and cutting ring stages. At the dill or 
gherkin stage the seeds are only about half the size of most varieties. 
Its quality is equally outstanding for mustard pickles or for ‘‘bread and 
butter” or sliced pickles. 
Hycrop will equal most commercial varieties under ideal growing 
conditions, but it has the ability to outyield most varieties during periods 
of unfavorable weather. In harsh weather the use of Hycrop may mean 
the difference between success or failure. 
One Northern grower for a large pickling firm stated that the quality 
of yield of the hybrid pickle was so good that he received as much for the 
pickles off the hybrid variety as off double the acreage of commonly used 
variety and also stated that the hybrid produced earlier and stronger 
plants than this variety. 
It was introduced in cooperation with Professor T. O. Graham at 
Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, and produced by us on our Saticoy 
farm near Ventura, California. 
SPECIAL HYBRID CUCUMBERS 
trade on a customer’s specific request with full guarantee of exclusive and 
confidential handling. Please consider us as your plant breeders. 
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