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By DR. DIANE RELF
Extension Consumer Horticulturist > The seed catalogs have been ar living steadily and you’ve been making some big plans for the garden. Il you are a new gardener, the catalogs may use terms with which you are not familiar. Here are some explana {ions. * A garden catalog ad may read fThe flavor of this new gynoecious, parthenocarpie slicing cucumber is mild and free of bitterness. It is resistant to mosaic virus and scab” oi Jthis hybrid tomato grows as a determinate plant. It is jointless for easy picking and VF resistant.” I This ad puts forth some critically Important vegetable characteristics fn a very succinct form. * Following is a list of some vegetable terms commonly found in garden catalogs: " Gynoecious - having only female flowers on the plant. This term is only used on those plants which have separate male and female flowers. It is not uncommon to also have a few male blossoms due to genetics and environment, but the preponderance of flowers on a gynoecious plant are female and produce fruit if pollinated.
Parthenocarpie - setting fruit without the need for pollination. ^Without the contribution of pollen, jseeds within the female fruit do not develop. 2 Slicing - type of cucumber in4ended for fresh use as contrasted -with pickling types. Slicers are long. Jhe length is four to five times the diJimeter. Most popular varieties are ylark green colored. • Non-bitter - refers to the absence of cucurbitacin, the bitter Compound which is present throughout the vegetative parts of most cucumber varieties. Only under some Stressful growing conditions do bititer plants produce bitter fruit. Non3>itter plants are damaged less by cucumber beetles. • Resistance to disease - when «ihe plant is immune, the plant or variety shows no effects of the disease Organism. However, the term “resistant” is used when a plant is able to grow better or show less severe Symptoms of a disease than other iplants. A plant may be either resistant or immune to one race of an organism, like the fungus Fusarium ■oxysporum race 1, but not resistant 'or immune to other Fusarium ox■ysporum races. ' Mosaic - a virus-caused disease which usually shows symptoms of misshapen fruit, yellow mottled leaves, stunted plant size and off
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