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varieties are Cumberland, Long Green, and 
Everbearing. 
The cucumber also takes kindly to green- 
house forcing, but as a different type, commonly 
termed the English frame cucumber, and very 
superior in quality to our own. It is more fleshy, 
with relatively fewer seeds, and very long, the 
general run averaging about fifteen inches in 
length by one and one half, in diameter. The 
shorter, American type is sometimes grown under 
glass, but mainly for the cheaper market trade, 
and rarely, if ever, for quality produce. The 
ideal house for cucumbers has raised benches, 
is supplied with bottom heat, and can be kept at 
a temperature of 65° at night, at all times. 
Seed can be sown at any time of the year, but 
you must allow three months for the fruit to 
mature properly. Start the seeds in inverted 
pieces of sod or, better still, in three-inch pots 
about one third full. When the seedlings grow 
above the rims of the pots, fill up the latter with 
soil; then, when the plant is well rooted, set it in 
the bench, before it has opportunity to become 
pot-bound. The bench should have good drain- 
age — at least an inch of sifted cinders, clam 
shells, or broken pots, with a little moss on top to 
keep it clear — and should contain soil very rich, 
