CUCUMBER. 129 



Coluraella has recorded a variety of wonderful stories 

 respecting the garden-cucumber ; and some English au- 

 thors of great celebrity have stated, that, when a cucum- 

 ber-vine is growing, if you set a pot of water about five 

 or six inches from it, it will shoot so much in twenty-four 

 hours as to touch the pot ; but that it will shrink from oil, 

 and turn fairly away from it. 



The gourd 



And thirsty cucumber, when they perceive 

 Th* approaching olive, with resentment fly 

 Her fatty fibres, and with tendrils creep 

 Diverse, detesting contact. 



Philips. 





