OF THE CUCUMBER. (^^ 



built wide enough to make the bed in the middle, 

 and room on each fide of the bed for the linings. 

 This is a very good method ; but the building of 

 fuch pits is attended with confiderable expenfe; 

 Thofe who have them fhould take care that there be 

 drains as low as the foundations of the bed to carry 

 off the water from it. 



The method of raifing the plants from feed is to be 

 feen in the beginning * of the journal of their daily 

 management. I ihall therefore proceed to give the 

 method 1 follow in flopping the plants, and in keep- 

 ing them regularly thin. 



When the feedling plants have one or two joints, 

 I flop them, after w^hich they generally put forth 

 two fhoots, each of which I let run till they have 

 made one or two clear joints, and then I flop them ; 

 and afterwards I continue throughout the feafon to 

 flop the plants at every joint j and the method I take 

 to do it is as follows : 



When the plants (hoot forth again after the fecond 

 flopping, they feldom mifs to fhow fruit at every joint, 

 and alfo a iendril ; and between this tendril and the 

 Ihowing fruit may clearly be feen the rudiment of 

 another ilioot \ and wiien th^ leading fhoot has ex- 

 tended itfelf fairly pail the fhowing fruir, then with 

 my finger and thumb I pinch it and the tendril ofl^ 

 jufl before the ihowing fruit j fo that in pinching off 

 the tendril and the fhoot, the fhowing fruit is not 

 injured. Thus flopping the leading fhoot flops 



* And alfo at the end. See Osflober 5th, 1 793. 



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