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be started under glass about five weeks before ihey are 

 wonted for transplanting. Thirty-two hills are started 

 under each 3x6 sash ; and when the fourth leaf is well 

 out the hills are transplanted to the field. The roots 

 can be saved from disturbance by using a piece cf 

 stove-pipe eight inches in diameter and six high, 

 to cut down around each hill; the shovel being then 

 thrust under, and the plants thus enclosed and sup- 

 ported during removal. Where sods can be obtained 

 to, plant in they are often used, for convenience in 

 handling ; but the supply is apt to be deficient. The 

 rows should be six feet apart; hills four feet apart in 

 the row, and slighth' elevated so that water cannot 

 settle on them. At first a close watch should be kept 

 for bugs : plaster or other dust will be effectual in 

 repelling them. Cultivate as for any out-door crop. 

 In the bearing season the cucumbers will generally 

 bring from one to two cents a piece ; and the entire 

 crop of an acre, at this price, will amount to $400 

 or $500. On high-priced land the entire crop should 

 be marketed for the table, as growing for the pickle 

 factories cannot be made to pay. For pickles, the seed 

 may be put in at any time from the middle of June to 

 the 20th of July. They may be planted as close as four 

 feet apart, each way. The pickles are sold by the 

 thousand, at prices which vary greatly. 



Among varieties the White Spine is the leading 

 table sort grown for this market, both out doors and 

 under glass. Rawsons's Improved is the best strain on 

 the market, and this I use exclusively, in forcing and in 

 out-door culture, for table use. It grows very even in 



