PREFACE; 



T AM not the firft who has written on the cul- 

 ture of the Cucumber, nor am I the firft who 



has pretended to caufe that vegetable to produce 

 fruit in every month of the year * ; but I have 

 not known, or heard, of any gardener except 

 myfelf that has fo much as pretended to make 

 It appear that he could produce cucumbers in 

 every month of the year from the fame plants. 



I do not fay, nor think, that I am poffefTed 

 of more dexterity, nor even of fo much, in the 

 management of the cucumber on a dung-bed, as 

 •fome are ; but I have invented a bed on which 

 I am confident that I can produce cucumbers 

 with more certainty, lefs expenfe f , and much 



* Some have been at the pains and expenfe to have ripe fruit in 

 every month of the year, which is rather a curiofity than any real 

 advantage. Millar's Di(^. abridged. See Cucumis. 



f Befides the faving in the dung and labour, the frames lafl 

 longer on a brick bed than on a dung bed j becaufe on the bricks 

 they Hand dry and fteady. 



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