64 DREER’S VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS. 
more easily and cheaply through the agency of bees. The 
little insects are also more certain to find and fertilize all 
the cucumber blossoms than even an expert human operator. 
Cucumbers demand a high temperature, as already 
intimated. The house may run up to 100° in sunlight, but 
ought not to fall below 60° at night, lest the plants be stunted. 
The trellises are made by using A-shaped trusses of 
iron or wood (V-shaped at the row, but A-shaped as to the 
way the trusses or supports are constructed), reaching from 
the bed nearly to the glass, with wires eight inches apart 
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A VETERAN CUCUMBER GROWER (JOHN S. CROSBY, ARLINGTON, MASS. ) 
running lengthwise of the house. The vines, which grow 
with great rapidity, are tied to the wires with string or 
raffia ; and it is no small trouble to keep the vines properly 
tied up. When the work is well done the fruit can be 
gathered from the under side of the trellis without difficulty. 
In four or five weeks from the time the plants leave 
the pots the cucumbers begin to go to market. The market 
box of the Boston grower holds about ninety cucumbers. 
