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THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



Bonneuil Large White Cucumber. 



white from first to last, with dark green, vigorous, and abundant 

 leaves. The plant can produce four to five Cucumbers if grown 



in substantial soil. Al- 

 though not a hothouse 

 variety, in France it 

 succeeds much better and 

 produces finer fruit grown 

 in that way. In beauty 

 of fruit it excels all the 

 other White Cucumbers. 



Bonneuil Large 

 White Cucumber. — This 

 Cucumber, which is almost 

 always grown in the open 

 ground, is quite distinct 

 from all other varieties. 

 The fruit instead of bein^ 

 cylindrical, is ovoid in 

 shape, swollen about the 

 middle, and, moreover, 

 very perceptibly flattened 

 from end to end in three 

 or four places, producing 

 the same number of more or less rounded angles. It is very large, 

 not unfrequently attaining the weight of four and a half pounds. 

 It is at first of a pale green colour, and gradually becomes white 

 as it increases in size. This is the Cucumber which is most 

 generally grown about Paris for the perfumers, who use large 

 quantities of it in their 

 manufactures. 



Early Yellow Dutch 

 Cucumber. — Plant usually 

 branching, with rather 

 slender stems. Leaves of 

 a light green colour, and 

 with well-marked angles ; 

 fruit longer and later than 

 that of the Early Russian 

 variety, but still well 

 adapted for forcing. At 

 first yellow - green, it 

 becomes slightly orange- 

 yellow when quite ripe. 

 Thfere are usually only two or three fruit on each plant. 



Half-long Green Cucumber.— A vigorous half-early plant 

 with light green stem and large leaves. The fruit is rather spiny ; 



Early Yellow Dutch Cucumber (i natural size). 



