190 OF RAISI^X CUCUMBERS. SECT. XIV. 



Cucumbers nor fown.' till the beginning of April \ 

 may be brought to bean*' fruit on one good bed, if under 

 a large frame; and fuch a bed wotfld, at the fame time, 

 ferve very well to fow, or to prick out, tender annuals. 

 See fe£lion 18, On flowers. 



A THIRD CROP of cucumbers may be fown any 

 time, from the middle to the end of May, (or even a 

 little later) either in a pot or not, upon fb-me hot bed 

 in ufe, to grow for a week or ten days ; or fow upon 

 a little heat of two or three barrows full of warm dung, 

 trod clofe, and previouily thrown together for the pur- 

 pofe : or if frefh and moiil from the ftable, it will, 

 though at prefent cold, heat itfelf. Cover the dung 

 with fix inches of mould, and jow half inch deep, and 

 half an inch afunder, under a hand-glafs ; and when 

 the plants are completely up, thin them to an inch 

 afunder, where let them grow, earthing them up as 

 they get tall, till they fhow rough leaf. Then prepare 

 more fuch little bodies of heat to plant them on* u 

 three or four in a patch, which cover with a hand-glafs, 

 or otherwife, and made alfo for a day or two, if Tuhnw 

 If you can take three or four plants up together by a 

 fcoop trowel, with earth to the roots, the better; and if 

 not, plant them pretty near together, laying them ailant, 

 fo that the fhanks be covered two or three inches. 

 Keep theie plants earthed up, and as much under their 

 covers as may be, till towards Midjunwur, covering the 

 parts that run out on nights till this time. The third 

 crop is that generally fown for picflers. Guard againlt 

 the fpot by a mat cover in September 1 . 



Sometimes, at this feafon, cucumbers are fown for 

 pick/crs in cold ground, efpecially about Londok, oxfov.th 

 "or wejl of it; but foil, fituation, and feafon, make a 

 (Treat difference in the cultivation of all, and particu- 

 larly of delicate plants. If any feed be fown on cold 

 ground, let it be in dry weather; give them a favour- 

 able 



