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the space between the rows may be very frugally 

 grown in the cucumber patch. Lettuce would do 

 well or early beets. Bush beans are an excellent 

 companion for cucumbers in more ways than one. 

 The rapid upright growth of the beans serves as 

 a protection to the young cucumber plants. They 

 furnish a good lure for their worst enemy; they 

 are out of the way before the area is needed; the 

 ground is left better than they found it, for beans 

 will leave in the soil a new supply of food for the 

 hungry cucumbers. Beans seem to be the best 

 companion crop; but tuck in anything rather 

 than leave the ground between the vine rows 

 unutilized. 



For varieties, White Spine is good for a re- 

 freshing salad; Cool and Crisp is an excellent 

 variety both for slicing and for the tiny pickles 

 or, if you are planning for a quantity of little 

 pickles, get the Burr cucumber, used only for 

 pickling. For the old-fashioned big sweet yellow 

 pickles, nothing takes the place of Long Green. 

 If only one variety is to be grown, then you must 

 choose Everbearing, which grows all sorts of fruit 

 well, from the tiny size used for pickles to the 

 big ones allowed to mature. It keeps on blossom- 

 ing and producing and maturing fruit until frost. 



With cucumbers the harvest is continual, from 

 the surprise of the first salad cucumber found 

 beneath the cool sheltering leaves, until the last 

 huge golden fruit is brought to light by the wither- 



