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have them from eight to ten inches apart in the row. 

 There will often be two or three plants close together in 

 the row, and if there are no others for fifteen or 

 eighteen inches on each side, I should let them all grow. 

 Another plan, and I think on the whole the best, is to 

 prepare the land just as thoroughly as you are able; 

 spread a quantity of manure on the surface, say fifteen or 

 twenty loads per acre; spread it evenly, and then go over 

 it two or three times with a smoothing harrow, and if it 

 pulls any of the manure into heaps, re-spread them and 

 continue harrowing and rolling until the whole surface 

 soil is as fine and mellow as a garden. In 

 fact it is a garden at any rate we wish, to 

 introduce garden culture on the 

 farm. Mark out the land into 

 rows four or five feet apart, and 

 then, with a two-horse plow, 

 throw up two furrows on each 

 side of the mark, and so con- 

 tinue until the work is all done. 

 In this way you will get a bed of 

 light, mellow, well-manured soil 

 in rows of four or five feet 

 5 apart; roll the land, mark it Fig. 6. BABLT 

 WHITE SPINE. once more? and drill in the seed. GRBEN CLUSTER - 

 Cucumbers are sometimes grown on sod land. The 

 land is marked out in rows, four or five feet apart 

 both ways, and the seed planted in hills made with a 

 hoe. If the land is in good condition, or if two table- 

 spoonsful s of superphosphate are scattered in each hill, 

 you will be likely to have a good crop, with very few 

 weeds to trouble you. 



The leading varieties are Early Eussian, Early Green 

 Cluster, Early Frame, Early White Spine and Improved 

 Long Green. The latter two varieties are extensively 

 grown for the pickle factories, as well as for market and 



