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KITCrtEN GARnFN DISPLAY I i*. 



CUCUMBER. 



Early {hort prickly 

 Early duller prickly 

 Early lonj^ prickly - 

 Common long pnckly 



Lon^ rmooth 

 Large green Tuiky 

 White Turkv 

 White Dutch 



f^ U C U M B K R S are very tender annnal 

 pla?)t<;, railed every year from feed, uhich, 

 for early Spring and Summer crops, are al- 

 ways fowed and « wltivated in hot- beds, from 

 January. P'ebruary, or March, till the end of 

 IVlay, or beginning of J ine, as neither the 

 feed nor plants will crow in the natural ground 

 and open air before that time, when warm 

 fettled weather, then may be fowed in beds 

 of natural tarih, for late ciops, and lor 

 pickles. 



The beft forts to cultivate are a fma;]cr por- 

 hon of the (hort prickly for the earlieft pro> 

 dudion, but moiily of the Jong prickly for 

 the principal early and general cropb. Any 

 of the others, for variety. 



They rtre rriifed in hot-bed?, under frames, 

 for e^rliell crops ; and in hot-bed ridges, un- 

 der hand-glaiics, for general Summer crops, 

 in June and Jul) ; and in the natural ground, 

 fowed the latter end of May, or beginning oi 

 June, for late productions in Auguit and Sep- 

 tember. 



To raife thein. in hot-beds, there muft be 

 i^roper uipplies of horic-ilable dung, conuft- 



