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colour and crispness long. The flesh is thick, and the seed space 

 not large. 



Green Giant Ridge Cucumber. A fine and very productive 

 variety, which may in favourable conditions be grown in the open, 

 though in the climate of Paris it succeeds better in hot-beds. This, 

 we may add, is the case with all Cucumbers, except the Gherkins. 

 The leaves are fairly large and strong, and the fruit more than 

 in. in length. Green when young, they gradually become 



yellow as they get ripe. 

 The skin is rough with 

 only a few spines and 

 generally straight and 

 well-shaped. It may 

 be recommended for 

 the kitchen-garden 

 and also for market- 

 gardens. 



Long Green Stour- 

 bridge Cucumber. A 

 productive and vigorous 

 grower, with leaves 

 large and pointed ; fruit 

 almost spineless, in 

 colour a vivid green, 

 turning to pale yellow 

 towards maturity. It 

 is cylindrical in shape, 

 blunted at both ends, 

 and measures 13 to 

 15 in. in length and 

 I J to 2\ in. in diameter. 

 Grown in hot-beds, it 

 yields an early and 

 abundant crop of re- 

 markably fine fruit. 



Green Parisian 

 Long Ridge Cucum- 

 ber. A vigorous plant, 

 the leaves of which are pointed at first, and rounded later 

 on. The fruit is long, cylindrical, measuring 15^ in. in length, 

 2 to 3 in. in diameter, weighing often as much as four to six 

 pounds and more, of an intense green colour up to full size, when 

 it turns to a greenish yellow and afterwards to a pure yellow. 

 The flesh is white, firm, and crisp. Given the right conditions, 

 it may be grown out-of-doors, but succeeds much better raised 

 in hot-beds. 



Green Parisian Long Ridge Cucumber. 



