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becoming exhausted. With such an intensive system, and 
with soil that is fairly heavy, the fall-set plants are kept 
in bearing until June or July. The closest and most care- 
ful attention is required to accomplish this, and the sys- 
tem does not appeal to extensive growers of greenhouse 
cucumbers. 
Fig. 111 represents a system of support devised by a 
prominent Toledo grower. A strip of wood ™% by 1 inch 
and about 7 feet long is placed beside each plant. A thin 
block 3 inches long is nailed onto the lower end to pre- 
vent the strip from sinking into the ground. The tops of 
the strips are secured to wires running lengthwise of the 
house. Pairs of nails 
are driven through 
the flat way of the 
strip at intervals of a 
foot apart and the 
nails are ™% inch 
apart. One nail is 
twice as long as the 
other, so that it can 
be bent at right 
angles. The stem of 
the cucumber is 
placed between the 
nails, and when the 
bent nail is turned 
until it rests upon 
the other nail, the 
stem is held securely 
in place without any 
tying. 
Pollination. —The 
cucumber is monce- 
cious, that is, the Fig. 116.—Single stem training of cucumbers. 
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sexual organs, pistils ate. Shae male and female flowers and the 
