220 VEGETABLE MARROW. 



progress of its power with the progress of man's 

 improvements, and by the very help of man becom- 

 ing so great as to drive him from the field, yet all 

 the while so hardly visible as to require the use of 

 the microscope that we may learn the fact or man- 

 ner of its existence! 



Vegetable Marrow, or Succada A species of 

 gourd, the pulp of which, from its richness and fla- 

 vour, has been called marrow a more harmless 

 luxury than the animal sort, as being cheaper and 

 less productive of vapours and vertigo. In lower 

 situations it may be sown in March under a hand- 

 glass, and planted out in May before a wall or trellis, 

 the one or other being requisite not only for warmth 

 and shelter, but for the support of the runners and 

 fruit. The reader may be reminded of the gravel 

 bank for fruit trees, previously described, which 

 cannot fail to have the most perfect aptitude to the 

 training of succada on the vacant spaces between 

 the trees. 



It may here be remarked, that for the implement 

 handglass, with very little skill of the hands, may 

 be substituted an article that costs almost nothing. 

 Let four boards, each twenty inches long and four 

 broad, set on edge, be nailed together in the form 

 of a square; insert on the upper edge a few willows, 

 and tie them together at the top, making either a 

 dome or pavilion roof, which cover with strong white 

 cartridge paper. This, rubbed with linseed oil, 

 turns rain, admits plenty of light, is better than 

 glass for striking all manner of slips, and as good 



