Enemies of the Cucumber. Eggplant 89 



By dropping the green cucumbers into a close vessel 

 when gathered fresh from the vines, and sprinkling salt 

 thickly over them, they make their own brine and keep 

 indefinitely until needed for pickling. Nothing is more 

 appetizing than a dish of cucumbers and fresh onions 

 sliced together on the dinner table in early summer. By 

 some the large cucumbers are eaten cooked. 



The striped cucumber beetle may be kept from the 

 young plants, as already stated, by using by the side of 

 the plants, sawdust saturated with crude carbolic acid. 

 One application is generally sufficient. No remedy has 

 been discovered for the pickle -worm, which attacks the 

 young fruit often before flowering is completed. Plant- 

 lice are occasionally troublesome, but never attack all of 

 the plants. Destroy infested plants by spraying with 

 kerosene emulsion. 



EGG PLANT 



This plant belongs to the same family as the tomato 

 and Irish potato (Solanum). It is a native of the tropics, 

 and hence requires a comparatively high temperature for 

 germination of the seed. If early fruitage is desired, the 

 seed should be sown in a hotbed to themselves in rows 

 eight inches apart and kept carefully protected from 

 cold until they vegetate. As soon as the third leaf 

 appears, thin and set the surplus plants in two-inch pots 

 filled with rich loam and sink the pots to their tops in a 

 coldframe, or, in the absence of the pots, in the soil of 

 the coldframe in four- inch squares, to develop strong, 

 stocky plants. The young seedlings are often attacked 



