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INDEX. 



Sea-kale . . . . . » 4 . . 98 



Seed-bed for frame cucumbers . . . . . 13 



Seed-bed for melons . . . . . 76 



Seed-bed for out-door cucumbers 3 



Seed cucumbers 40 



Seeds, mode of trying if good . . . . ,2 



Setting cucumbers . . 40 



Setting melons e . . . . . .84 



Shading melons 74, 86 



Sheltering cucumbers in the open air . . 6, 10 



Shoots, when to thin • . . . . . . 37 



Soil for frame cucumbers . . . . . .34 



Soil for melons 67, 69, 77 



Soil for out-door seed bed for cucumbers 3 



Soil for transplanting 18 



Sowing cucumber seeds for hand-glasses 2 



Sowing cucumber seeds in the pinery . . . . 45 



Sprinkling hot-beds with water 29 



Steam, use of to the plants in hot-beds . . . . 29 



Stopping cucumber plants .... 5, 20, 37 



Stopping cucumbers on the improved system . 60 



Stopping melons . . . . . . . 69, 79 



Stopping, mode of performing .... 8, 21 



Sweetness of hot-beds, mode of trying . . . .14 



Syon-free-bearer cucumber . . . . . . 44 



Temperature of hot-beds, how to ascertain . . 83 



Thinning the lateral shoots of cucumbers . . . . 8 



Top-heat . . . . . . . 38, 58 



Training cucumber plants according to the improved pit 



system 57, 61 



Training encumbers under hand-glasses . . .7 



Training melons ...... 72, 73 



Training melons on trellises ...... 83 



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