mi THE AMERICAN GARDENER. 



fence. Put six inches deep of fine rich earth on the 

 dun^. Sow a parcel of seeds in this earth; and cover 

 at night with a hit of carpet, or sail cloth, having first 

 fixed some hoops over liiis httle bed. 



Before the plants show the rough leaf, plant two in 

 a little flower-pot, and fill as many pots in this way as 

 you please. Have a larger bed ready to put the pots 

 into, and covered with earth so that the pots may be 

 phmged in the earth up to their tops. Cover this bed 

 like the last. 



When the plants have got two rough leaves out, they 

 will begin to make a shoot in the middle. Pinch that 

 short off. Let them stand in this bed till your cucum- 

 bers sown in the natural ground come up; then make 

 some little holes in good i ich land, and taking a pot at a 

 time, turn out the ball and fix it in the hole. These 

 plants will bear a month sooner than those sown in the 

 natural ground. 



The cucumber plant is very tender and juicy ; and, 

 therefore, when the seedlings are put into the pots, they 

 should be watered, and shaded for a day or two; when 

 the halls are tinned into the ground, they should be wa- 

 tered, and shaded with a bough for one day. One plant 

 in a hill is enough. One will bring more weight of 

 fruit than two (if standing near each other), two more 

 than three, and so on, till you come to fifty in a square 

 foot ; and then you will have no fruit at all ! 



HOP. 



Any bit of a root will grow and become a plant. The 

 young plants should be planted in the fall, three or four 

 together in a clump, or lull, and the hills should be from 

 seven to ten feet apart. The first year of planting, put 

 four rods, or little poles, to each hill, and let two vines 

 go up each pole, treading the rest of the vines down to 

 creep about the ground. In a month after the vines 

 begin to tnount the poles, cut olf all the creeping vines; 

 draw up a hill of earth against the poh.s all round, and 

 cover all the crowns of the plants. In short, make a 



