Burrell's Earliest of All Cucumber Cucumbers
You know for thirty years I have been growing cucumber seeds and all this time I have been carefully selecting to produce The Best. By holding closely to a high ideal I have established this type until it is recognized as best in its class. Color.-Very dark green and remaining green until almost fully ripened, when it becomes a greenish-white. Size.-As a slicer seven to eight inches long-very uniform and square ended-a beautiful cucumber. The flesh is pearly white, crisp and the quality as a slicer unexcelled. Earliness.-In a check with all varieties, Burrell's Earliest of All has proven worthy of its name and Market Growers who find earliness a big item are getting big returns from this sort. I have grown over ten million pounds of cucumber seeds during the past thirty years and this sort has always averaged one of the heaviest yielders. For Pickling.-The small pickles are excellent for bottle goods and the larger ones either for sour pickles or Dills. Large pickle packers purchase about twenty thousand pounds of seed from me each year for growing pickles. To Market Growers who plant to ship as slicers: Plant this sort extensively if extreme earliness and the qualities listed above are what you want. No matter what sort you have been planting, plant part of your acreage to this and compare results. At Williston, Florida, this sort is reported to be the most profitable the growers have planted. Planted in check test with four other leading sorts, it far outclassed them all, being earlier, darker green, and bringing more money. Price-(5c per kt.) (10c per oz.) (35c per ¼ lb.) ($1.20 per lb.) ($1.10 per lb. In 100-lb. Lots) post or express paid. 500-lb. Lots, f.o.b. Rockyford, $90.00 per 100 lbs. This seed is put up in 1-lb. Sealed cloth bags. Large growers club together and take advantage of the quantity of prices. The crop season just passed was not favorable to the production of cucumber seed, and throughout the country the crop averaged small. My stocks are extra fine and I anticipate larger sales than last spring when my spring mail order sales of cucumber seeds totaled more than one hundred thousand pounds.
Originally listed in: 1927 Burrell's Seed Catalog
You know for thirty years I have been growing cucumber seeds and all this time I have been carefully selecting to produce The Best. By holding closely to a high ideal I have established this type until it is recognized as best in its class. Color.-Very dark green and remaining green until almost fully ripened, when it becomes a greenish-white. Size.-As a slicer seven to eight inches long-very uniform and square ended-a beautiful cucumber. The flesh is pearly white, crisp and the quality as a slicer unexcelled. Earliness.-In a check with all varieties, Burrell's Earliest of All has proven worthy of its name and Market Growers who find earliness a big item are getting big returns from this sort. I have grown over ten million pounds of cucumber seeds during the past thirty years and this sort has always averaged one of the heaviest yielders. For Pickling.-The small pickles are excellent for bottle goods and the larger ones either for sour pickles or Dills. Large pickle packers purchase about twenty thousand pounds of seed from me each year for growing pickles. To Market Growers who plant to ship as slicers: Plant this sort extensively if extreme earliness and the qualities listed above are what you want. No matter what sort you have been planting, plant part of your acreage to this and compare results. At Williston, Florida, this sort is reported to be the most profitable the growers have planted. Planted in check test with four other leading sorts, it far outclassed them all, being earlier, darker green, and bringing more money. Price-(5c per kt.) (10c per oz.) (35c per ¼ lb.) ($1.20 per lb.) ($1.10 per lb. In 100-lb. Lots) post or express paid. 500-lb. Lots, f.o.b. Rockyford, $90.00 per 100 lbs. This seed is put up in 1-lb. Sealed cloth bags. Large growers club together and take advantage of the quantity of prices. The crop season just passed was not favorable to the production of cucumber seed, and throughout the country the crop averaged small. My stocks are extra fine and I anticipate larger sales than last spring when my spring mail order sales of cucumber seeds totaled more than one hundred thousand pounds.
Originally listed in: 1927 Burrell's Seed Catalog