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CULTURE OF THE CUCUMBER, 



THE Cucumber, cuciimis in botany, is a genus 

 of tha monecia fyngenefia clafs. Its charac- 

 ters are thefe : It hath male and female flowers on 

 the fame plant, which are bell-fhaped, of one petal, 

 which adheres to the empalement, and is cut into 

 five rough fegments. The male flowers have three 

 iliort (lamina, which are inferted in the empalement ; 

 the female flowers have no ftamina, but have three 

 fmail pointed filaments without fummits. The germen 

 is fituated under the flower, which afterwards be- 

 comes an oblong fruit with three ceils, containing oval 

 flat-pointed feeds. 



There are^ I believe, only three fpecies of the cu- 

 cumber, the comm.on, the white, and the long Turkey,, 

 but there are many varieties. 



The long green cucumber tvith black prickles, I 

 think is the beft for forcing. I have a very good 

 fort of it, which I have Iiad for eleven or twelve 

 years, and which, when fit for the table, runs from 

 fix to twelve inches long, and, when ripe, runs to 

 nbout eighteen or twenty inches long. 



I) I cannot 



