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Show 4. PAGE In Cache Valley Gardening United throughout States, and even in other countries of the world, which may be superior to the varieties which are better known from having been grown in your gardens in -- past years. You might be interested to know that many of the varieties grown in our gardens became available as a from commercial spin-of- f culture, either for processing or for fresh market production on a commercial scale. With the upsurge in home gardening in recent years, the large national seed companies in the United States are increasingly aware id the need to supply varieties with distinctive characteristics for home gardening such as earliness, yield succu-lanc- e, fine texture, dependability, disease resistance, compactness of growth and the. ability to stand in the garden' when mature at a high level of quality for an extended period of time. AS EXAMPLES of new varieties which have just been released for home gar- -' dening, we might indicate the superior characteristics of the following : Hie tempo snap bean is a bush type bean of Blue Lake quality that has superior upright plants that hold the long, straight, slim dark green, stringless pods well from the surface of the soil. This promises to be an excellent snap bean though produced on a bush type plant which does not require trellising. The Pacemaker II beet is a new F--l hybrid which was developed in Minnesota. It is similar to the Detroit Dark Red except that it exhibits unusual vigor, rapid growth and choise quality for home gardeners. The globe shaped roots are very uniform with a rich deep color inside and out and it has an unusally sweet delicious flavor. The beet is remarkably smooth and tender even at the stage when an ordinary beet would be over grown. THE TAKII Seed Company in Kyoto, Japan has produced two fine new var--' ieties of califlower which would be particularly well adapted for growing in Cache Valley. These are Snow King and Snow Crown. The Snow King is . fully twenty days earlier than Snowball and Snow Grown la ten days earlier than Jkuwt ball, but nearly approaches the quality of the tMbWbi type cauliflower. I'M Mott Crown is one of the easiej varieties of cauliflower to' Continued grow in a garden and may be produced early in the spring and again as a fall crop. The Snow King does not perform particularly well in the early spring but will produce an excellent fall crop in areas of short season. These varieties are now available from seeds- men in the United States. There have been unusualy fine developments in pickling cucumbers. With the release of the first gvnoec-ious hybrids, which produce pickles, at each node of all female plants, there has been rapid improvement of picling cucumber varieties until now one of the first hybrids, Crusader, is not generally available but is being replaced by a new THE POINT that I wish to make is that you should become aware of seedsmen in the local Cache Valley area who have had considerable experience in choosing varieties which are well adapted to growing in Cache Valley and who ' also are quite well aware of new developments of varieties ' the - gynoecious hybrid called Breen Star. PETER PIPER COULDNT PICK anything that cant be pirkled. There are a great many more varietiea of pickle available than juat the popular cucumber type. A moat everything can be pickled meat, vegetables, fruits, nuts, eggs, and believe it oe not, even flowers. All About Pickling, from Ortho, tells you how to do it. How About Giving Pickles For Gifts When Needed new Ortho book, "All Need a gift idea for that relative who seems to have everything? Or, would you just like to get something thats unique, that no one else will have? If your answer is "yes," our answer is pickles! not the cucumber kind you can pickle something special that the About Pickling. Pickle a pineapple for someone in Hawaii. Take some pickled hot peppers to a Mexican dinner. And, an Invitation to a barbecue is the perfect occasion for a gift of some homemade relish or chutney. Pickles can also be individually seasoned for individual tastes. And, they can be made without salt and with sugar substitutes, to conform to anyones specific dietary needs. gift-receiv- er just loves. Pickle your friends favorite vegetable or fruit, and present it in the dead of winter when its out of recommends the - IT IS VERY likely that seeds of this variety would, not be available for another year but you should be aware that this high quality pickling cucumber will be available as soon as the seed supplies are increased.. . The Snow White hybrid onion, which was released by the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station, is now being offered to home gardeners by the George W. Park Seed Company, Inc., Greenwood, South Carolina 29647. This onion will likely become available from other seedsmen since it has been increased for wholesale distribution by the Dessert Seed Company in El Centro, California. This is an early white Spanish type hybrid which ' ' seedsmen in the United States have offered special packets of varieties, especially for home gardens. It is interesting to observe that the Greek Gardens is planning such a program of offering packets of high quality vegetable varieties which are particularly well adapted to Cache Valley. These packets will include new and favorite varieties of a nice collection of vegetables, especially for the gardener who is not well acquainted with varieties so that he may purchase this packet with confidence, but also for the experienced gardener to sample some of the newer releases of vegetable varieties which are now available. o o o o o O . . 1976. This may be considers as one of the activities of thi celebration of our bicentien nial year. Our nation begar with home gardening am now we have returned to thi greatest interest in garden ing .which our nation hai ever known in the year 1976 The displays of garden seed are prepared at the loca garden centers for your en joyment and seed companie across the land have prepai ed catalogs to enthuse gai deners as they plan fa gardens of 1976. 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