344 VEGETABLE FORCING 
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Fig. 122.—Cucumbers packed in bushel boxes. 
they can be set on top of one another without danger of 
bruising the fruits. When wrapped with paper, the 
basket makes a pleasing and satisfactory package. A 
basket holds from 24 to 30 cucumbers, the number in 
each being marked on the handle. 
Yields and returns.—There is the widest variation in 
the yields of greenhouse cucumbers. From 45 to 60 
fruits to the plant are expected by most growers in the 
Boston district, though much larger numbers are often 
harvested. When a short season is planned and the 
growth is limited to a single stem with its axillary 
branches, 30 fruits to the plant is a good yield, especially 
if the plants are set close together. 
With the arbor system of training, as employed at 
Rochester, N. Y., where the spacing is liberal, a single 
plant may produce 50 or more specimens. One house in 
this district containing 550 plants averaged nine dozen 
to the plant. Two thousand dozen cucumbers of the va- 
riety Abundance from a 30 by 180-foot house is con- 
sidered a good yield in the Rochester district, and as 
