CUCUMBER 



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The Early Cluster 

 Pickling Cucumber, also 

 an American variety, re- 

 sembles the Green Paris 

 Cucumber, excepting that 

 its colour is dark green. 

 The fruit is also some- 

 what longer, growing in 

 bunches of two and three. 

 It is a productive variety. 



Green Meaux Gher- 

 kin. Distinct from the 

 ordinary Gherkin, the 

 fruit being almost twice 

 as long, nearly cylindrical 

 in shape, and in colour 

 a beautiful green, with 

 an absence of spiny ex- 

 crescences for a third of 

 its length. Vigorous and 

 hardy, it succeeds in open 

 culture. It is more rapid in growth 



Improved Bourbonne Cucumber. 



Green Meaux Pickling Cucumber. 



than the ordinary Gherkin, 

 and very productive. 



Improved Bour- 

 bonne Cucumber. A 

 true Cucumber, produc- 

 ing long, thin, crisp fruit, 

 which, if gathered soon 

 after they have set, make 

 unusually fine Gherkins. 

 The spines are more 

 numerous and smaller 

 than in other varieties, 

 and resemble short, stout 

 hairs. It is quite dis- 

 tinct from the Meaux 

 Cucumber, being thinner, 

 longer, and a more 

 intense green. It is 

 specially suited for the 

 production of Cornichons 

 or Gherkins, on account 

 of its abundant and long- 

 continued yield, provided 

 the fruit is gathered 

 about as soon as formed. 



