CUCUMBER 



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green striped with yellow when young or yellow at maturity, 

 when it measures about 9 in. long and 2j in. in diameter. It is 

 much grown, and very productive. 



Long Green Cucumber. — A rather large and vigorous- 

 growing plant. Fruit slender and narrowed like that of the Early 

 Yellow Dutch variety, but still longer and more pointed at both 

 ends, and covered with very 

 numerous and prominent spiny 

 excrescences. It remains dark 

 green in colour until ripe, when 

 it turns a brown-yellow. The 

 flesh of this variety is thick, 

 firm, and crisp, on which 



Fournier Long Green Cucumber. Green Giant Ridge Cucumber. 



account it is highly valued for use in salads before it is ripe, 

 generally when only half or three-quarters grown. 



Fournier Cucumber. — An early Cucumber with slender stem 

 and pointed leaves. The fruit measures an average 16 in. in length 

 and between 3 and 4 in. in diameter at the lower end, which is 

 thicker than the end near the stalk. The colour is a vivid green. 

 The fruit is spiny when young, and when ripe is quite smooth. 

 It is vigorous, early, and productive, and well suited for the 

 open culture, though better grown on a hot-bed. It keeps its 



