ISS OF RAISING CUCUMBERS. SECT. XIV. 



faft as they die upon the vines. Lay a bit of tile, or 

 iome ftfcn thing, under forward fruit. 



Something of pruning may perhaps be necelTarv, fot 

 plants will not bear well, either in quantity, or quality, 

 it the frames are crowded. The rule (of courfej is, to 

 cut out thofe runners that can be beft fpared, as being 

 w-eak, moil in the way, or having the fmalleft fruit on 

 them. But as the fulnefs is generally owing to the 

 putting in the bed too many plants, the better method is 

 to cut down to the root a whole plant; and that in time ; 

 i. e. on the prof peel of being too full of vine : this may 

 feem a great facrifice, but it will prove a profitable one. 

 Let the difcharged plant lay a day to wither, that it 

 hang not hard to the others, and break their leaves, in 

 drawing it out while frefh. About Midjummer, the 

 frame may be raifed, to permit the runners to iirikeout, 

 and in a fortnight after taken entirely off ; though oncer 

 in a frame, and always in, is better, if convenient. 



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A second crop of cucumbers may be fown at any 

 time between the middle and end of March, if they 

 are to be brought up in frames ; but if under hand* 

 glajjes, ox paper covers, then anytime from the begin* 

 ning of April to the middle, is foon enough, at leaft 

 in Northamptonfhire. A hot bed for fowing the feed at 

 this time, need only be from two and a half to three 

 feet thick, and a one-light frame. On this bed alfo 

 *nay be fown, in pots, or otherwife, tender annuals ; 

 and it is a very good time for moil of them. Or the 

 feed for plants to ridge out under hand-glafles, may be 

 fown in pots, and placed in other hot beds, to bring 

 them forward till they have been Hopped. 



What has been faid about making hot beds, and 

 fowing, and managing cucumbers, will direft now ; 

 only at this fcafon, mowings of grafs may be put 

 round a bed to increafe the heat, and will be found uie- 

 ful to lay on the top of dung linings when funk. 



A feed 



