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is of medium length, averaging a foot or 14 inches when 
fully mature, smooth and regular. It would probably 
sell better than the larger sorts in markets which are 
unaccustomed to the large English varieties. Telegraph 
(T, Fig. 66) is also a favorite and productive variety, 
and is probably the most popular one with commercial 
growers. It is a smooth, slender, and very handsome 
fruit, ordinarily attaining a length of 18 or 20 inches. 
English authorities say that this variety is very liable to 
mixture, but we have never had such experience. Ken- 
yon (Lord Kenyon’s Favorite) is also an_ excellent 
smooth, slender sort of medium length. Edinburgh 
(Duke of Edinburgh) is a spiny and somewhat furrowed 
variety, attaining a length of 20 to 24 inches (E, Fig. 66. 
It is not an attractive variety, and we prefer others. 
Lorne (Jarguis of Lorne) is one of the best of the very 
large sorts. We have grown a fruit of this 33% inches 
long, and it was a perfect specimen. Blue Gown is 
also an old favorite. 
Very large fruits are less popular than those of me- 
dium length. They are too large for convenient table 
use, and they are apt to be inferior in quality to those 
a foot in length. The flavor of English cucumbers is 
somewhat different from that of the common field sorts, 
the texture being, as a rule, somewhat less breaking. 
But this is not an evidence of poor quality; it is simply 
a different quality, and evidently belongs to these fruits 
as a class. The English sorts retain their green color 
longer than the field varieties. They are ordinarily 
picked before they attain their complete growth, al- 
though they remain edible for some time after they have 
reached maturity. 
The reader will now be able to understand what the 
English mean by ‘‘prize cucumbers.’’ Specimen fruits 
are exhibited at the shows, and there are certain cus- 
tomary scales of points for determining the merits of 
individual fruits, such as the age of the specimen, the 
