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. 
Model — Vine is very strong with good leaf cover- 
age. Fruit about 6 inches long, dark green, white 
spined. A great favorite in the South as a fresh- 
pack variety, and increasingly popular as a white- 
spined pickle. 
Niagara — A Cornell University introduction of 
mosiac resistance, with a slight resemblance to 
Cubit. Fruit 9 to 10 inches long, white spined and 
crisp. Splendid slicer. 73 days. 
Ohio Mildew Resistant 17 — Mosiac resistant pickle 
from Ohio University. Darker green, slimmer and 
more prolific than National Pickle. Black spined, 
and well warted. Fruit 614 to 7 inches long. 58 days. 
_ Palmetto (Mildew Resistant) — Attractive, new, 
_ dark green, slicing variety which is resistant to mil- 
dew. Vigorous and producing good, smooth, well- 
shaped, cylindrical fruits of fine quality, size, color. 
Mae spined. Fruits 8144 inches long by 2% thick. 
days. 
Straight Eight—A good shipping variety, early and 
prolific. Produces fruits uniform in size, shape and 
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 uni- 
form. 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. 
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