CUCUMBER 



West India Gherkin. Cunnnis Aiwuria : Pigs. 590. 591. Vines 

 small and slender, somewhat resembling a slender water- 

 melon plant : fr. very abundant, small, ellipsoid, covered 

 with warts and spines, green, tardily whitening. Good for 



The.se varieties are mostly all ffood for one purpose 



ririi,.. iMi- riii- fniii-. I'l.. White 

 !<piue v;triftie.s Lire gr.jia luvurites for 

 slif'ing, and only less so for pickling. 



The unrelenting enemies of the Cucuraliei 

 in the field are the Cucumber beetles {Dia 

 brotica, spp.) and the squash bug {Anasa 

 tristis). No effectual preventive measurts 

 are known except to cover the young plants 

 with small wire or hoop frames, over which 

 fine netting is stretched. If the plants are 

 kept quite free from attack till these 

 tors are outgrown, tlieywill nsiially su 

 tie damage. Plants staitiil 

 houses (see above) ni:i\- us 

 this is the chief a.lvaiita-e 

 cumber beetles ar»- k<jpt 

 strewing tobaeec. st.iii~^ tl 

 kerosene emulsion will 

 young squash bug's without killini.' tlic vines, but usu- 

 ally not. ''In the greenhouse. Cucumbers are liable to 

 damage from mite, aphis, root-gall and mildew. Forthe 



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bed in which the temperature of the soil is 70 to 80°. 

 Place them 3 or 4 inches apart. In about ten days they 

 will be large enough to transplant into pots. Six-inch 

 pots are preferred, two plants in each. In two weeks 



ivpt free 



first, and 

 The Cu 

 at times by 

 !ie plants ; and 

 seommode the 



idwinter, hand-poUu 



they will be large enough to set in the house where they 

 are to grow. The plants are set 3K feet apart in the 

 row and rows 6 to 7 feet, according to the size of the 

 house. The vines should bear in four weeks. The crop 

 depends upon the season. The spring-grown plants will 

 produce double the crop of the fall- or winter-grown. 

 The pollinating may be done with bees. One hive in a 

 house of 24 by 100 feet, or in that proportion, will be 



. may be neces- 



bers are not often 

 rlie green-fly comes 

 . II with water, and 

 "inetimes appears, 

 n care of properly. 

 'US diseases but to 

 I. Radishes or to- 

 is. If radishes are 

 hen the Cucumbers 

 e Cucumbers begin 

 of the house when 



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mite, syringe the plant and pick off the infested Ivs. ; 

 for aphis, use tobacco fumigation and pick infested Ivs. ; 

 for root-gall, use soil which has been thoroughly frozen; 

 for mildew, improve the sanitary conditions, and then 

 use snltur."— Bailey, Forcing-Book. p_ j^. Waugh. 



FoRciNii OF Cri fMHEiiS.-Tli.' -rowiuicof Cucumbers 

 under gl;i<- lia< Ih-ccuu- a hii-u'i- iii.lu-iry. Some years 

 ago thev w.r,. f,,rr,_.,i ,iiil\- lu tli,- -iniii-. but to-day they 

 are grown all tli,- year r..uu.l. Tli.- iii"st difficult time 

 is in the .short days of winter. At sueh times there is 

 always a good price for them and a brisk demand, and 

 the prospect is as good for the future. The house may be 

 even span and run either way, but many use two-thirds 

 span, with the long way to the south. When they are 

 continually grown year after year, it would be best to 

 have double glass and double thick, but for early fall 

 and late spring, one thickness of double glass is suffil- 

 eient. The house may be any length desired. For heat- 

 ing, str:iiii i- 11 . 1m -f, with pipes arranged so that they 



shall u.i :•, from either side of the house. 



Pipes 1 T.r are large enough. Larger 



pipes ;.'n . 1 .1 i, ,1. at in one place. 



The soil .~L.juK! lu g..od loam, new soil preferred, from 

 sod land. The plants are started in a box or small bed, 

 where the temperature can be run to about 90°. In 

 four or five days they will he ready to transplant into a 



to bear; but all crops sliouli 

 the Cucumbers are bearing. 



In this country, the White Spine type of Cucumber is 

 mostly used for forcing, although the long English kinds 

 are sometimes grown (particularly for home use). 



W. W. Rawson". 



CUCUMBER ROOT. Same as Indian Cucumber, 

 Jledeola Virginica, 



CUCUMBER TREE. S,ee Averyhoa am\ Magnniiii. 



CUCUMIS (old Latin name) Ciuuthitii-ea'. Sterile 

 fls. in clusters, not long stalked, the fertile ones solitary 



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and mostly short stalked in the axils corolla of 5 deep, 

 acute lobes stamens not united stigmas 3, obtuse: 

 tendrils simple Herbaceous vines of nearly 30 tropi- 



