. Annual circular and retail catalogue of warranted vegetable and flower seeds. Gardening United States Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds United States Catalogs; Fruit Seeds United States Catalogs. Mr. Tailby made this choice new variety by his skill and perseverance in crossing the Early White Spine on one of the largest of the English Frame varieties. These English Frame cucumbers are much larger than our American varieties, some of them growing to thirty inches in length, but they are so tender that they cannot usually be relied upon in open air cultivation in this country.
. Annual circular and retail catalogue of warranted vegetable and flower seeds. Gardening United States Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds United States Catalogs; Fruit Seeds United States Catalogs. Mr. Tailby made this choice new variety by his skill and perseverance in crossing the Early White Spine on one of the largest of the English Frame varieties. These English Frame cucumbers are much larger than our American varieties, some of them growing to thirty inches in length, but they are so tender that they cannot usually be relied upon in open air cultivation in this country. In Tailby's Hybrid however, we have a perfect success in hardiness, as it proves to_be equally hardy with our American varieties. In size it is much larger than White Spine, while it retains all the smooth beau(y°of its English parentage. In yield it is unsurpassed by any, and equalled but by few of our most prolific sorts. A crop of them for size, beauty and number is a sight to behold. Price, 35 cts. per ounce, 15 cents per package. The editor of the Rural Hew Yorker who has been testino- this with other varieties on his extensive experimental grounds gives the following as the result : " The results of our cucumber experiments this season, may be summed up in a very few words We choose Tailby's Hybrid for cucumbers and Green Prolific for Cream-Fleshed, Sculptured-Seeded Melon. In size about medium, color much like Phinney's, but darker and more regularly striped ; flesh very tender and meltino- sweet and delicious. Melons quite thin shelled, but first-rate keepers notwithstanding. The seed present a sino-ular appear- ance, as though engraved with oriental characters. Price 15 cents per ounce ; 6 cents per Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original James J. H. Gregory (Firm);
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