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Hmong Red<br />
GELE TROS or LARGE DUTCH YELLOW #CU159<br />
This is a large yellow cucumber that was popular in<br />
Holland for making yellow, sliced pickles. The Dutch call<br />
this cucumber the “ancient race”. The ripe fruit are quite<br />
colorful in their sunny yellow color. A fine old strain that is<br />
very rare now even in Europe. Pkt (15 seeds) $2.75<br />
HMONG RED #CU152<br />
The fruits are white to pale green, turning golden-orange<br />
as they ripen. A very productive and tasty variety that stays<br />
mild even when large. This heirloom was collected from a<br />
Hmong immigrant. Millions of the Hmong tribe live on the<br />
borders of Thailand, China, Burma, Laos and Vietnam, and<br />
are a very ancient people. Pkt (15 seeds) $2.50<br />
JAPANESE LONG #CU111<br />
68 days. Long, slim fruit that are very crisp and mild.<br />
Easy-to-digest, firm flesh with few seeds; a great Japanese<br />
variety for home use or farmers’ markets. This cucumber is<br />
a personal favorite, being very productive and delicious.<br />
Pkt $2.50 or 1 oz $13.00<br />
JAUNE DICKFLEISCHIGE #CU140<br />
A variety that is described as “ancienne” or old by the French,<br />
it also bears a partly German name and is of German origin,<br />
making this old heirloom a real piece of European cucumber<br />
history. Huge, yellowish-green fruit turn a lovely lemon<br />
color at full maturity and can weigh 5 lbs! Beautiful fruit are<br />
very crisp and flavorful. Vines produce good yields of this<br />
impressive, tasty cucumber. Rare! Pkt $4.00<br />
LEMON CUKE #CU103<br />
60 days. The shape, size, and color of a lemon, but the<br />
flavor is sweet and mild! This heirloom was introduced in<br />
1894 and is still a favorite today. Pkt $2.50 or 1 oz $8.00<br />
LONG DE CHINE #CU146<br />
Types of Long China cucumbers have been mentioned in<br />
France since the 1860’s. Long, bright green-colored fruit<br />
are mild and tasty. They are the sweet oriental type that so<br />
many people enjoy. Vines produce well, and this variety is<br />
still commercially grown in Europe. Pkt $2.50<br />
MARKETMORE 76 #CU101<br />
70 days. Dark green, 8”-9” fruit; great slicer! Good yields!<br />
Excellent flavor. A real standard for superb eating cukes.<br />
Pkt $1.75 or 1 oz $6.00<br />
MEXICAN SOUR GHERKIN #CU125<br />
(Melothria scabra) 75 days. Incredible, small cucumber-like<br />
fruit are shaped like baby watermelons. They are good<br />
added to salads or can be pickled. They have a cucumberlike<br />
taste with a touch of lemon. The ornamental vines<br />
have tiny leaves and flowers and are perfect for the<br />
cottage garden. Very unique and fun for kids. Huge yields.<br />
Read about these in “Mother Earth News”. Pkt $2.50<br />
MINIATURE WHITE #CU167 New!<br />
50 days. White-skinned, black-spined little pickling cukes.<br />
Production is high and begins very early on almost-bush<br />
plants that seldom run over three feet making great<br />
container plants. Delicious for fresh use as well—this strain<br />
has none of the bitterness that has unfortunately come to<br />
be associated with the white-fruited types. Pkt $2.25<br />
PARISIAN PICKLING #CU106<br />
60 days. The old French gherkin or cornichon pickler.<br />
Listed in America in 1892 by Gregory. Great for making<br />
tiny sweet pickles. Rare. Pkt $2.00 or 1 oz $5.00<br />
POONA KHEERA #CU129<br />
60 days. Creamy, light-green fruits; very delicious flesh, crisp,<br />
and juicy. Sweet and mild; one of my favorite varieties. Fruit<br />
shaped like a potato, with skin turning brown as they ripen.<br />
One of our best varieties that is disease-resistant and very<br />
hardy. Vines produce early and the yield is very heavy. A<br />
Mexican Sour Gherkins<br />
wonderful heirloom from India that has become our most<br />
asked-for cucumber. Pkt $2.50<br />
RUBY WALLACE’S OLD TIME WHITE #CU153<br />
65 days. Grown for over 50 years by Mrs. Ruby Wallace<br />
of Dallas, North Carolina. Ruby first got a start from her<br />
mother-in-law Myrtle, who had grown them for many<br />
years. The Wallace family uses the fruits for pickles when<br />
they are very small. (Be sure to use white vinegar to make<br />
white pickles!) Or the family let the fruits get a bit larger<br />
for slicers. It’s the only one they grow! A real Carolina<br />
heirloom. Pkt $2.50<br />
SIKKIM CUCUMBER #CU124<br />
The historic cucumber of Sikkim. Fat, large fruit can reach<br />
several pounds in size. The ripe fruit is a unique rusty red<br />
color and is good eaten cooked or raw. In Asia, cucumbers<br />
are often stir-fried and are quite tasty. This variety is grown<br />
in the Himalayas of Sikkim and Nepal. Sir Joseph Hooker<br />
first discovered it in the eastern Himalayas in 1848. Here<br />
is part of what he wrote about it: “So abundant were the<br />
fruits, that for days together I saw gnawed fruits lying<br />
by the natives’ paths by the thousands, and every man,<br />
woman and child seemed engaged throughout the day in<br />
devouring them.” Pkt $3.50<br />
SOLLY BEILER #CU157<br />
This cucumber makes superior pickles when harvested at<br />
about the size of your thumb. Spectacularly productive<br />
in our trials, the plants yield very uniform fruits, which at<br />
full maturity are russeted like a Poona Kheera. Stays crisp<br />
and mild even at larger sizes. Developed in the 1930’s by<br />
Solomon “Solly” Beiler, then a bishop in the Beachy Amish<br />
Mennonite Church, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.<br />
Our original seed was furnished by Martin J. Hughes, a<br />
present day member of the same church in Elmira, New<br />
York. Pkt (15 seeds) $2.50
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