CUCURBITACEZ., 
November, at which time the shoots of the vines were withdrawn 
from the house, and a dung-bed formed in the floor of the 
vinery in the usual way. After placing the frame and mould on 
the bed, it may be left without the lights until the rank steam 
has passed off. After this, the plants being placed in the hills, 
and the sashes put on, the following are the leading features of 
management during the winter. Make fires in the evening, so 
as to warm the air of the house to from 56° to 60°, and in very 
severe frosts it may be raised to 70°. In the mornings of the 
coldest weather, and shortest days, make a strong fire, so as to 
raise the heat to nearly 70° when the house is shut up. About 
8 o'clock, and from that time to half past 9, give plenty of fresh 
air, by opening the front sashes and top lights, after which, and 
during the remainder of the day, give plenty of air to the 
cucumbers, by tilting the sashes in the usual way. In mild 
weather, and during sunshine, the lights may be taken en- 
tirely off the cucumbers for some hours each day; and imme- 
diately after forming new linings, the top lights may be left 
open a little all night to permit the escape of rank steam. The 
advantage of this mode of growing cucumbers during winter is, 
the comparative certainty of an early and good crop at one-third 
of the trouble and expence of the common method out of doors. 
By this practice fruit may be cut in January. The vines may 
be introduced in the beginning of March, and will break beauti- 
fully and regularly in consequence of the genial steam of the 
dung. In April the shade of the vine leaves will have rendered 
the house too dark for the culture of the cucumber, and as by 
this time cucumbers are plentiful in the common hot-beds out of 
doors, the bed in the vinery may be cleared away, and the vines 
treated in the usual way till the following November. 
Common or Cultivated Cucumber. Fl. July, Sept. Clt. 1573. 
Pl. trailing. 
4 C. rLrexvosus (Lin. spec. 1437.) stems trailing, scabrous, 
flexuous, cirrhiferous; leaves cordate-ovate, somewhat lobed, 
denticulated, stalked ; flowers in fascicles in the axils of the 
leaves; calyx very pilose ; fruit long, cylindrically-clavate, fur- 
rowed, flexuous, replicate, white or yellow. ©.F. Native of 
the East Indies.—Lob. stirp. p. 363. f. 2. Dodon. pempt. p. 66. 
f. 2. Ger. herb. p. 763. f. 3. Fruit the size of a large pear, 
eatable, and delicious. It is cultivated about Nagasaki and 
elsewhere in Japan; is ripe in June, and is called by the Dutch 
Banket Melon. 
Var. B, reflécus (Ser. mss.) leaves angularly-lobed. C. ré- 
flexus, Zieh. 
Flexuous-fruited or Banket Melon. 
1597. SPE tre 
5 C. Jamaice’nsis (Bert. ex Spreng. syst. 3. p. 46.) leaves 
cordate, 3-lobed, quintuple-nerved, glabrous, quite entire, beset 
with scabrous dots beneath ; lobes acuminated; fruit nearly glo- 
bose. ©. F. Native of Jamaica. 
Jamaica Melon. Fl. June, Sep. Clt. 1824. Pl. tr. 
6 C. macroca’rpos (Wenderoth ex Mart. reise. bras. ex Lin- 
nea. 5. p. 39.) leaves cordate, rather angular, acutish, sharply- 
denticulated, scabrous from hairs ; fruit oblong, obsoletely striat- 
ed and spotted, remotely tuberculated. ©. F. Native of Brazil. 
Long-fruited Cucumber. PI. tr. 
7 C. Cua're (Lin. spec. 1437.) plant very villous; stems 
trailing, bluntly pentagonal, flexuous ; leaves petiolate, roundish, 
bluntly angled, denticulated ; flowers small, on short peduncles ; 
fruit pilose, elliptic, tapering to both ends. ©.F. Native of 
Egypt and Arabia.—Alp. exot. egyp. p. 54. t. 40.— Bauh. hist. 
2. p. 248. f. 3. The fruit is rather watery; the flesh almost of 
the same substance with the melon; the taste somewhat sweet, 
and cool as the water-melon. The grandees and Europeans in 
Egypt eat it as the most pleasant fruit they have, and that from 
which they have least to apprehend. With us it is very indif- 
Fl. May, Sept. Clt. 
IV. Cucumis. 27 
ferent. Itis most common in the fertile soil around Cairo, after 
the inundation of the Nile. Chate is the Egyptian name of the 
lant. 
: Chate or Hairy Cucumber or Melon. Fl. June, Aug. 
Lo Ose Ltrs 
8 C. Dupa‘m™ (Lin. spec. 1437.) plant hispid ; lower leaves 
roundish, upper ones somewhat 5-lobed, cordate at the base, 
denticulated ; tendrils simple; petals ovate-roundish; male 
flowers having the calyx rounded at the base, the throat dilated, 
and with the connectives longer than the anthers ; hermaphro- 
dite flowers having the tube of the calyx ovate and pilose ; stig- 
mas 4-6; fruit globose, smoothish, variegated, rarely warted : 
with white sweet-scented, but insipid flesh. ©. F. Native of 
Persia. And. bot. rep. t. 548. C. odoratissimus, Moench, 
meth. 654,—Dill. hort. elth. 223. t. 177. f. 218.—Walth. hort. 
p. 133. t. 21. The fruit is variegated with green and orange, 
and oblong unequal green spots; when full ripe becoming yel- 
low, and at length whitish. It has a very fragrant vinous musky 
smell, and a whitish, flaccid, insipid pulp. Dudaim is the Hebrew 
name of the fruit, rendered mandrake in Scripture, which is per- 
haps C. prophetarum. 
Dudaim or Apple-shaped Melon. Fl.Jul. Aug. Clt.1705, Pl. tr. 
9 C. Co’nomon (Thunb. jap. p. 324.) plant rather pilose; 
stem trailing, striated ; leaves cordate, somewhat lobed, stalked, 
rather pilose ; flowers small; fruit oblong, glabrous, 6-10-fur- 
rowed; flesh firm. ©. F. Native of Japan. Fruit larger 
than a man’s head. Flowers aggregate, on rather hispid stalks. 
This plant is cultivated every where in Japan for the sake of its 
fruit, which, when preserved, is sold under the name of Conne- 
mon, and is a common food among the Japanese. It is also fre- 
quently eaten by the Dutch at Batavia, and is sometimes brought 
to Holland. 
Conomon Melon. PI. tr. 
10 C. sr'prum (Meyer, prim. esseq. p. 278.) leaves cordate- 
ovate, somewhat 5-lobed; fruit oval, muricated, acuminated at 
both ends. ©. F. Native of Guiana, in the island of Wac- 
hanama. C. angùria, Reusch, but not of Lin. ex Steud. nom. 
It differs from our C. angiria in, the leaves being subpalmate, 
with angular recesses, and in the fruit being globosely-elliptic. 
Hedge Melon. PI. tr. 
11 C. tivea'tus (Bosc. journ. hist. nat. 2. p. 251. t. 37.) stem 
climbing, pentagonal; tendrils trifid, longer than the leaves ; 
leaves cordate, palmate, acutish, serrulated; petioles short ; 
flowers usually twin, almost sessile; female ones having an 
oblong-ovate calyx, and lanceolate segments; petals ovate, 
retuse; fruit ovate-oblong, lined with green, 10-ribbed. ©. F. 
Native of Cayenne. 
Lined-fruited Melon. Fl. June. Aug. Clt. 1825. PI. tr. 
12 C. PRoPHETA`RUM (Lin. spec. 1436. amoen. acad. 4. p. 
295.) stem trailing, striated ; leaves cordate, 5-lobed, denticu- 
lated; lobes obtuse; flowers axillary, 2-5-together, stalked ; 
male ones with a campanulate calyx, and obovate petals; calyx 
of the female flowers globose at the base, 12-striped, and his- 
pid: limb campanulate, crowned by teeth; fruit globose, echi- 
nated, variegated, size of a cherry. ©. F. Native of Arabia. 
Jacq. hort. vind. 1. t. 9.—Blackw. herb. 589. C. grossularioides, 
Hortul. The plant has a nauseous odour. The fruit equals the 
Colocynth in bitterness. 
Prophet’s or Globe Cucumber. FI. Ju. Sept. Clt. 1777. Pl. tr. 
13 C. Arrıca' nus (Lin. fil. suppl. p. 423.) stems trailing, an- 
gular; leaves cordate, 5-lobed ; lobes acutish ; peduncles fili- 
form; fruit ovate-oblong, much echinated. &. F. Native of 
the Cape of Good Hope. Lindl. bot. reg. t. 980.—Herm. par. 
p- 134. t. 36. Flowers small. Very like C. prophetdrum. 
African Cucumber. Fl. June, Aug. PI. tr. 
14 C.aneu'ria (Lin. spec. 1436. but not of Reeusch. ex Steud. 
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