^ The Busy Woman s Garden Book 



ground. Last year among a number of these 

 Japanese plants there occurred one or two plants 

 of a snow white cucumber that I found very 

 superior in crispness and flavor to the green 

 fruit. Owing to early frost I was not able to 

 secure seed of this interloper. Mr. Burbank's 

 cucumber seed did not produce a single white 

 seed. This is not, however, a climbing sort, but 

 all vines which have tendrils can be grown on net- 

 ting. Squash even will grow, bear and seem to 

 enjoy the experience. 



Cucumbers when grown for the table should be 

 gathered as soon as of slicing size, whether wanted 

 or not, as allowing the fruit to ripen on the vine 

 stops production; this is especially imperative in 

 the case of pickles which must be removed as soon 

 as of sufficient size to use. The small pickles of 

 an inch and a quarter or less should be gathered 

 first and larger pickles left until the latter part 

 of the season as gathering the cucumbers while 

 very small increases the vine's productiveness 

 and there will always be enough overlooked to 

 supply the larger sort of pickles. 



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