Ridge Cucumbers. 



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CUCUMBERS (RIDGE). 



RIDGE Cucumbers are generally classed amongst the salads 

 suitable for the poor man's table. So far as the distinc- 

 tion is made on account of the low price at which they can be 

 profitably sold in comparison with frame cucumbers this classi- 

 fication cannot be objected to, but as a matter of fact the 

 flavour of a well-grown Ridge Cucumber is considered by many 

 good judges to be distinctly superior to that of its relative. 



Of course much, 

 both in the matter of 

 flavour and of profit- 

 making, depends on 

 the way in which the 

 plants are grown. 

 When they are set out 

 by acres in the open 

 field, where they are 

 neither watered nor 

 mulched, and where 

 they receive very 

 little after-cultivation 

 beyond an occasional 

 hoeing, the best re- 

 sults cannot be ex- 

 pected, though should 

 the summer be warm 

 and the plants be kept 

 in vigorous growth by 

 occasional showers, 

 even this rough and 

 ready mode of culture 

 sometimes yields fair 

 crops. There is no 

 doubt, however, that 

 this is a plant which 

 always pays for good treatment, and when this is so the fruits 

 can be grown long and shapely, so as not to be very far behind 

 a frame cucumber in appearance. 



Copyright, V. A. & Co. 



Green Giant Ridge Cucumber. 



