. Burpee's novelties for 1890. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Pennsylvania Catalogs; Vegetables Pennsylvania Catalogs; Seeds Pennsylvania Catalogs. 48 W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO., PHILADELPHIA. BURPEE'S GIANT PERA CUCUMBER. From all parts of the United States we are re- ceiving letters of the strongest praise of this splen- did variety, all uniting to sustain our claim that The Giant Peka is the finest cucumber for table use ever introduced—swr-^sJismz all otherb in beauty and delicious flavor. The vines are very vigorous in growth, with dark green, lux- uriant foliage
. Burpee's novelties for 1890. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Pennsylvania Catalogs; Vegetables Pennsylvania Catalogs; Seeds Pennsylvania Catalogs. 48 W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO., PHILADELPHIA. BURPEE'S GIANT PERA CUCUMBER. From all parts of the United States we are re- ceiving letters of the strongest praise of this splen- did variety, all uniting to sustain our claim that The Giant Peka is the finest cucumber for table use ever introduced—swr-^sJismz all otherb in beauty and delicious flavor. The vines are very vigorous in growth, with dark green, lux- uriant foliage. It is a most prolific variety, our field of them being the most thickly covered of any Long Cucumbers we have evergrown. The cu- cumbers are set early, near the hill, and very close together. The illustration given herewith was accurately engravedfrom two specimens, oiaver- age size, that grew only two inches apart,—one of these measured eighteen inches and the other seventeen inches in length. Their round circumfer- ence was II14 and lo^ inches, respectively. As shown in the illustration, the cucum- bers uniformly grow very smooth and straight; the skin is a beautiful medium green, perfectly smooth, free from spines, and retains its dear green color until nearly ripe. They are very thick through, per- fectly round, full at the blossom end, and of equal diameter throughout, except that they taper a little at the stem end. The green cucumbers are fit to eat at any stage, the flesh is entirely ivhite, very clear, peculiarly crisp, tender and brittle, with very few seeds, free from the obnoxious " green cucumber ; The seed cavity is remarkably small, and the seeds are so slow to form that even large cucumbers, twelve to fif- teen inches in length and three inches in diameter, are still equally as firm and crisp as smaller specimens, the seeds being yet almost unformed. A mature Giant Pera eighteen to twenty-two inches long will hardly give as much seed as a s
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