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apart, at intervals of 3 feet. A single stalk is carried to an over- 

 head wire support, which is horizontal and covers the entire area 

 of the house. This is a common method of training in the Ironde- 

 quoit section near Rochester, New York. In other cases the walks, 

 as well as the A-trellises, run lengthwise of the house, as shown in 

 figure 90. This trellis is high enough and broad enough to permit 

 workmen to pass beneath it for the purpose of spraying and 

 harvesting the fruit. 



Soil for the benches. The soil for the best development of the 

 forced cucumber should be a rich compost which would be classified 



FIG. 90. An A-trellis for cucumbers running lengthwise of the house 



as a sandy loam. Sods from an old pasture with a good turf over- 

 topping a clay loam, composted with about one third its bulk of 

 cow manure to which, at the time of placing it in the greenhouse, 

 about 1 5 per cent of its bulk of sand is added, should make a good 

 soil. From time to time during the growth of the cucumbers they 

 should be watered with liquid manure from a leach containing 

 fresh horse manure and sheep manure. It should be the aim of 

 the grower to keep the plant in the most vigorous condition possible. 

 Propagation. There are a number of methods of propagation 

 followed by successful cucumber growers, all of which have some 



