. Burpee's farm annual : garden, farm, and flower seeds. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Pennsylvania Catalogs; Vegetables Pennsylvania Catalogs; Seeds Pennsylvania Catalogs. W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO., PHILADELPHIA. NEW GIANT PERA ^IA^^^ PEM(!ueuMBEi^ We regard this as one of the choicest novelties it has ever been our good fortune to introduce. We obtained three years ago ^ a few of the seeds from Dr. R. P. Harris, S of this city, who sent for them through a friend to Turkey. The first year we grew them in Delaware County, Penna., and were much pleased wit
. Burpee's farm annual : garden, farm, and flower seeds. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Pennsylvania Catalogs; Vegetables Pennsylvania Catalogs; Seeds Pennsylvania Catalogs. W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO., PHILADELPHIA. NEW GIANT PERA ^IA^^^ PEM(!ueuMBEi^ We regard this as one of the choicest novelties it has ever been our good fortune to introduce. We obtained three years ago ^ a few of the seeds from Dr. R. P. Harris, S of this city, who sent for them through a friend to Turkey. The first year we grew them in Delaware County, Penna., and were much pleased with their superb rpiality. Selecting seed from the very finest specimens, we grew them the next season in New Jersey and on Long Island. Having again, in 1884, made a critical .se- lection of stock seed, we grew the past season a magnificent crop, and now have the pleasure of offering for sale seed of the fittest cucumber for table use ever introduced. The vines are very vigorous in growth, with dark-green, luxuriant foliage. We find in our note-book under Sept. 17th, 1885, when nearly all other cucumbers had died, "the vines, even to-day, are still ; The Giant Pera is a most prolific variety, our field of them being the most thickly covered of any Long Cucum- bers we have ever grown. The cucumbers are set early, near the hill, and very close together. The illustration given herewith was accurately engraved from two cucumbers, of avera<::;e size^ that grew only tzuo itiches apart,—one of these cucumbers measured eighteen inches and the other seventeen inches in length. Their round circumference was wyi and 10^ inches respectively. As shown in the illustration, the cucumbers uniformly grow very smooth and straight, the skin is a beautiful medium green, perfectly smooth, free from spines, and retaining its clear green color untd nearly ripe, when the skin becomes of a leathery-brown color. They are very thick through, perfectly round, full at the blossom end
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