THE CUCUMBER UNDER HAND-GLASSES. 5 



is done by taking off the leading shoot one joint 

 above the seed-leaves, which will cause them to 

 break afterwards much stronger than by any 

 other mode of stopping. Should more than one 

 hand-glass be used, the beds must be kept six 

 inches apart to admit of proper drainage. 



The fruiting-bed should be prepared in the fol- 

 lowing manner, and placed in the most sheltered 

 part of the kitchen-garden. Dig a trench about 

 two feet deep, (if the soil be dry, and will admit 

 of your so doing,) three feet wide, and of suffi- 

 cient length to allow each plant four feet. Let 

 it be filled up well with fermented horse-dung, 

 tan, or leaves, to the height of two feet six 

 inches, and upon this foundation lay about 

 eighteen inches of good soil, such as recom- 

 mended for the previous bed, (see p. 3). When 

 the mould and glasses have been on a few days, 

 and the bed has become warm, take up the 

 plants from the seed-bed, by forcing the trans- 

 planter under the dung, down to the hard ground, 

 and with your hands part the plants from each 



