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ten to fourteen days throughout the season with 
Bordeaux mixture or ammoniacal copper carbon- 
ate. Don’t wait for the appearance of the 
disease, thinking that it may not hit your crop. 
It is no respecter of “‘good intentions,” and if 
it comes, you will probably not pick many 
cucumbers. 
With their freely trailing habit, cucumbers 
do not require support or training, but a plan 
that I have tried for two seasons, and found very 
satisfactory, is to run a rowof pea brush along 
beside the cucumber hills, sticking it in a very 
slanting position. ‘The vines climb over and not 
only are kept more free of rust, but also seem to 
grow better; and, of course, they occupy less 
space — which is an important point in the small 
garden. 
The cucumber will be ready for picking in 
from eight to ten weeks from the sowing of the 
seed. Don’t let the fruit stay on the vines; if 
you cannot use them all give some away, but 
pick them as often as possible. When the next 
lot of hills begin to bear, pull up the vines that 
have gone past their prime; in the first half of 
the season, you can resow in these hills at once 
for a later crop. The best varieties for outdoor 
growing are of the White Spine type; other good 
