84. ON THE CtJLTURB 



as the weather gets wanner and warmer, aif is gireil 

 more plentifully to harden the plants^ fo that they may 

 be able to bear the open air, and run from under 

 the glafTe^. 



When the plants begin to fill the glafles, they are 

 trained out horizontally, and the glafles are fet upon 

 bricks or fuch-like, to bear them from the plants. 

 After this the plants require nothing more but to 

 be fupplied with water when the fummer fhowers are 

 not fufficient, and to flop them when ihey run too 

 thin of branches, and thin them of leaves or branches 

 when they are likely to become over-crowded. 



In warm fummers and in warm fituations, by this 

 mode of management the plants will bear plentifully 

 for about two months, provided they be not attacked 

 by ihfe<5ls or weakened by difeafes. 



It is to be ken in the following journal, that on the 

 22dof O^ober 1792 I fowed the feeds of the cucum« 

 bcr *, an<i ridged out the plants upon the i6th day 



of 



■'' The cucumber plant may be kept on from year to year by- 

 cuttings. The method of flicking them is this: Take a fhoi)t 

 which is juft ready for Hopping, cut it ofFjuft below the joint be- 

 hind the joint before which the ihoot (hould haive- been flopped, 

 then cut fmooth the lower end of the fhoot or cutting, and ftick it 

 into fine leaf or other rich mould about an inch deep, and give it 

 plenty of heat, and fhade it from the rays of the fun till it be 

 fairly ftruck. By this method, aa well as by that of liftying,. 

 plants may readily be propagated. 



Thofe who are dcfirous of having cucumbers early, had beft 

 fovv the feeds about the 20th of Oftober 5 they may be fown at 

 any time of the year, but the fpring and autumn are the beft 

 fcafons. -Cucumber plants may be mad^e to bear fruit plentifully 



