JULY 21, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



39 



Vegetable Plants 



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 Farly Summer, Flat Dutch. Sure Head, Danish 

 [iound and Ball Head, at 20c per 100, fl.OO per 

 1000; 10,000 and over, 86c per 1000. 



Celery, White Plume, Golden Self-Blanching, 

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Vegetable Forcing. 



WHITE SPINE CUCUMBERS. 



I should appreciate any information 

 in Tfgard to White Spine cucumbers. T 

 jiiu growing the English cucumbers with 

 success, but wish to grow some Whitfe 

 i-^pine in connection with the others. 

 Will it be advisable to grow one row 

 of plants on each side, trained up to 

 tiie wire, as I do with the English 

 variety? Each house will be about six- 

 teen feet wide. 



Is it necessary to have bees for the 

 White Spine? Bees would tend to spoil 

 rather than benefit the fruit on the 

 English vines, and they bear as heavily 

 without the bees. I spray the English 

 sort quite often, overhead. I presume 

 this should not be done with the White 

 Spine, as it would prevent the trans- 

 mitting of the pollen. I plant the 

 Knglish cukes eighteen to twenty inches 

 apart in the row. F. K. 



The White Spine cucumbers are not 

 nearly as strong growers as the English 

 variety, and will stand planting closer 

 together in the rows. You will also 

 want four rows of them to a house, aa 

 they do not grow so tall. You can train 

 them in several ways. For instance, 

 four rows of White Spine in a 16-foot 

 liouse might be trained in the form of 

 two separate, sharp-pointed arches; or 

 I lie two central rows might form an 

 arch in the middle of the house, while 

 tlie two outside rows would follow the 

 ^liapo of the wall and roof, like your 

 'English vines; or each of the four rows 

 I'light be trained separately straight up 

 to the roof. The White Spine is much 

 'iiore prolific than the English type and 

 - "lis much better. 



The houses in which you have the 

 \Vhite Spine varieties must have bees to 

 'istribute the pollen. In England it is 

 'liought that the cucumbers are spoiled 

 ' V being pollinated, but in this coun- 

 'y it is not considered any detriment 

 ' them. In fact, the people here care 

 'it little for the English cukes, any- 

 ' '^v, and in most markets they are hard 



sell. The Davis Perfect variety is a 

 • If breed that might interest you. It 



•exactly like the English in growth, 

 ' It the fruit is much like that of the 

 •liite Spine, only longer. 



I'requent spraying of- the vines is just 

 ; beneficial for White Spine as for 

 ' 'ose you grow now. They stand any 

 iiiount of spraying, but it is best to 

 "lit until the bees have had an hour or 

 '^^0 to go over the blooms early each 

 "|'>rning, before the first spraying. 



^ou plant your English sort closer 

 "lan most growers; four to five feet 

 ■'•I'art is usually the distance, and six- 

 ^•'^n to twenty-four inches for White 

 ^pine — single plants in both cases. 



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