144 GARDENING FOE PEOFIT. 



Asylum Sugar. — A large late variety of tall growth, 

 used to succeed the earlier sorts ; it is productive, and has 

 every desirable quality except earliness. Should be 

 planted in hills 4 feet by 3. 



Stowell's Evergreen. — Also a late variety, having the 

 peculiarity of remaining longer in the green state than 

 any other sorts ; on this account it is very popular. 



CUCUMBER. —{Cucumis sativus.) 



The growing of the Cucumber out-of-doors is, in most 

 places, attended with a great deal of annoyance and 

 loss, occasioned by the attacks of the " Striped Bug." 

 When the seed is sown in the open ground, repeated sow- 

 ings are often utterly destroyed by this pest, despite of 

 all remedies. To avoid this, and at the same time to 

 forward the crop at least a week, we have long adopted 

 the following method, with the greatest success. About 

 the middle of May, (for this section), we cut from a pas- 

 ture lot, sods from 2 to 3 inches thick, these are placed with 

 the grassy side down, either on the benches of our forcing 

 house, in an exhausted hot-bed, or inside of a cold frame ; 

 at that season of the year any one of these will do as 

 well as another. The sods being fitted together neatly, 

 so that all crevices are filled up ; they are then cut int( 

 squares about 3 or 4 inches in length and breadth ; on each 

 of these are planted 2 or 3 seeds of Cucumber, and over 

 the whole is sifted about half an inch of covering of some 

 light rich mold. They are then sprinkled thoroughly from 



