VEGETABLES RAISED FOR MARKET 



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 apiece; 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. 



Rawson's Hot House is the best variety for 

 forcing and is also fine for out-door culture. 

 The cucumbers are quite long, of deep green 

 colour and excellent shape. It is a variety of White 

 Spine that has been brought to its present state 

 of perfection by the most careful selection. The 

 Early Cluster is a very popular early variety, 

 which produces cucumbers in clusters. The Green 

 Prolific, a pickling variety, favoured by many, 

 has a similar habit of growth. The Boston 

 Pickling is considered the leading pickling variety, 



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