Indispensable for 
Pickles and Salads. 
CULTURE The seed may be started indoors. 
to a hill. When the weather is warm plant out. 
CUCUMBER 
When plants are three or four inches high thin to 2 or 3 
Cultivate frequently until the vines cover the ground. 
1 oz. will plant 50 hills. 
2 pounds to an acre. 
The fruit should be gathered as soon as large enough to use, or else the productiveness of the vines 
will be permanently injured. Do not injure the vines. 
Do not yank or pull them off the plant; fruits 
should be cut from the plants with a small part of the stem attached. 
Cucumber — Improved Long Green 
IMPROVED LONG GREEN — Very popular. Fruits 
Gark green, solid, tender, crisp; 12 inches long; 
2% to 2% inches thick; straight. 60 days. 
PKt 10c. Oz 25c. % Ib 75ec. Lb $2.50. 
EARLIEST OF ALL —The finest extra early; ta- 
pering slightly at both ends. ‘Color deep green; 
very desirable for the home and the market. 50 
days. PKt 15c. Oz 35c. % Ib $1.05. Lb $3.20. 
EARLY WHITE SPINE — The most popular white 
spined ‘Cucumber. Fruits medium dark green; 7 
inches long; 2% inches thick; slightly tapered. 
60 days. PKt10c. Oz 25c. % Ib 75c. Lb $2.50. 
EARLY FORTUNE — Improved — The rich, dark 
green fruits average 1% inches; flesh firm, with 
a small seed cavity. 60 days. 
Pkt 10c. Oz 25c. % lb 75c. Lb $2.50. 
HYBRID CUCUMBER — See Page 28. 
PROTECT EARLY PLANTINGS OF CUCUMBERS WITH HOTKAPS. 
% oz to 
100 feet row 
A rich, sandy, warm soil produces the best plants. 
Start seed in hotbed o indoors, when 3 inches high 
plant in pots, set outsSoors when frost danger is 
over. 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HYBRID—This New Egg 
Plant is upright and of uniform growth. Its earli- 
ness and productiveness is especially valuable for 
northern locations. The eggs are of the most 
desirable market size, also fine for home usé; 
distinctive in appearance. This dark Purple Egg 
Plant is a very worthy and distinct variety. 
PKt 15c. % oz 65c. Oz $1.10. % Ib $3.50. 
IMPROVED NEW YORK — This selection is vastly 
superior to the old type. The habit of the plant is 
low and branching and is quite free from spines. 
140 days. Pkt 15e. ¥% oz 60c. Oz $1.10. 14 Ib $3.50. 
ENDIVE 
EGG PLANT 7 wound 
to acre 
1 oz to 
4 pounds 
100 feet row 
to acre 
WHITE CURL- 
ED — Leaves 
pale green; 
should be used 
when young. 
Pkt 10c. Oz 25e. 
Y% Ib S85e. 
GREEN CURL- 
ED — For Fall 
and largely 
used for Win- 
ter use; also 
garnishing. Is 
crisp and cur- 
ly; very easily 
blanched. 40 
days. Pkt 15c. 
0z 25c. \% Ib 85e 
BROAD LEAVED BATAVIAN or ESCAROLE — A 
very wide leaved variety. Leaves with straight 
edges, thick and fleshy, of a dull Green color. 
Quality excellent. Pkt 10c. Oz 25c. %4 Ib S5de. 
GOURDS 
Both Useful and Ornamental 
Endive — Green Curled 
The ripened fruits, when dried, are used for orna- 
ments and have become extremely popular for home 
decoration. Climbers with curiously shaped and 
colored fruit; fine to cover old fences, trellises, 
stumps, ete. Ten to twenty feet high. 
Mixed. Pkt 10c. % oz 40c. Oz 70c. 
34 
Cucumber. 
The fruits 
inches in 
WINDERMOOR WONDER — An ideal 
Beautiful dark bluish green color. 
average 14 inches in length by 2% 
diameter. 72 days. 
Pkt 10c. Oz 30c. % Ib 95c. Lb $3.00. 
DAVIS PERFECT — Long and slender, length 10 
to 12 inches. Color very dark green, of fine fla- 
A choice variety 
vor, very tender and _brittle. 
for forcing or for outside culture. 60 days. 
Pkt 10c. Oz 25c. % Ib 75c. Lb $2.50. 
STRAIGHT EIGHT — This variety produces fruits 
well rounded at both ends, eight inches long and 
2 inches in diameter. Color deep green, of fine 
quality. Makes an ideal slicing variety. 63 days. 
Pkt 10c. Oz 30c. % Ib 95v. Lb $3.00. 
ROBIN NO. 50— (New) —Is a slicing type and 
bears an abundance of handsome fruits. Very 
smooth with tapering ends; Jet Green, very 
beautiful, are 8-9 inches long. 
Pkt 10c. Oz 40c. % Ib $1.20. 
JAPANESE CLIMBING—This variety can be grown 
on trellises, fences or poles. The fruits, 10 to 12 
inches in length are of excellent quality either 
for slicing or pickling. 65 days. 
Pkt 10c. Oz 25e. % Ib 75c. Lb $2.50. 
PICKLING VARIETIES 
EVERBEARING — Small size, very early and enor- 
mously productive and valuable as a green 
pickler. Remarkably solid with very few seeds 
and of fine quality. 60 days. 
Pkt 10c. Oz 25c. \%4 Ib SOc. Lb $2.85. 
EXTRA EARLY GREEN PROLIFIC or BOSTON 
PICKLING — Very prolific, fruit medium sized, 
bright green, very crisp and tender. Gather fruit 
when small and it will bear all summer. 60 days. 
Pkt 10c. Oz 20c. % Ib 95c. Lb $3.00. 
THEY DO BETTER. 
KALE or BORECOLE 
(% oz to 100 feet of row—2 pounds to the acre.) 
DWARF CURLED SCOTCH—Widely used for “boil- 
ing greens.” Young leaves may be chopped raw 
like lettuce for salads and sandwiches. The early 
sowings give fully grown plants. Will furnish 
delicious, small, tender green leaves for late 
fall and early winter use. Light frost seems to 
improve the flavor. Thin or transplant the seed- 
See Page 73. 
lings to stand 12 inches apart in rows 2 to 8 ft. 
55 days. 
apart. Pkt 10c. Oz 30c. % Ib 95e. 
Kale or Borecole 
KOHL RABI 
(4%, ounce to 100 feet 
of row) 
PURPLE VIENNA — 
An early variety 
with a bright Pur- 
ple bulb, the leaves 
and stems being 
green and tinged 
with Purple. 
days. Pkt 10c. 
% ot 40ce. Oz 7T5e. 
EARLY WHITE 
VIENNA—The skin 
is light Green and 
very smooth; the 
flesh is creamy 
White and of deli- 
cate flavor. 55 days. 
Pkt 10c. W% oz 40c. 
Oz 70c. 
Kohl Rabi— White Vienna 
