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CUCUMBERS 



WHO does not know the handsome, dark green fruits 

 which, sliced and seasoned, furnish us one of the 

 coolest and most refreshing summer salads? Cucumbers 

 are a very easily grown vegetable. They require little 

 or no care after the seedlings have outgrown the danger 

 of being eaten by the little striped beetles which seem 

 to prefer young cucumber seedlings to all other food, j 



Although the cucumber plants are of a creeping or 

 spreading habit of growth, they are easily confined to 

 small space by pinching out the centre shoot of vines. A 

 dozen hills need not take up more than forty square feet 

 of space and will yield a surprising amount of fruits. 

 Keeping them picked before they reach full size will 

 cause the plants to bear longer. Read pages 230-234 for 

 easily followed directions how to grow lots of cucumbers. 



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