CHAPTER XIII. 
THE CUCUMBER. 
The cucumber is a leading crop in the greatest American 
forcing houses. ‘The Boston gardeners have been getting as 
high as $30 per hundred for White Spine cucumbers in 
January ; and from that price down to $12 per hundred in 
the later months. The New England cucumber growers 
have had the Eastern markets almost wholly under their 
control, for some years past, during the winter season. 
END VIEW OF A GREAT FORCING HOUSE, SHOWING CUCUMBERS. 
. There is a disposition now shown in this country to 
grow for the winter market the long, so-called English 
forcing cucumbers, of which something will hereafter be said. 
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