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THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



^ Extra Long White-spine Cucumber. — Fruit dark green, long, 

 cylinder-shaped, with white spines ; the flesh tender and very white. 



^Bi^ /'"Xx^-^ vigorous and productive 



" " variety. 



Arlington, or Im- 



"^y^.^^^^ proved White-spine, 

 " ^^^^Cr-f Cucumber. — Cultivated 

 in the United States. Is 



Green Long Chinese Cucumber (i natural size). 



a sub-variety of the last- 

 named, the fruit being 

 much shorter, dark green, 

 and more pointed at the 

 ends. Adapts itself as 

 well to forcing as to 

 outdoor culture 



Gherkin, or Pickling, 

 Cucumber. — A vigorous, 

 free-flowering, and pro- 

 ductive plant, with stems 

 from 5 to over 6 ft. long. 

 Fruit oblong in shape, 

 and intermediate between 

 the Early Russian and 

 the Early Yellow Dutch 

 varieties. They are almost 

 always gathered scon after the plant flowers, when they are about 

 as thick as the finger, and they are used almost exclusively for 

 pickling. There are two 

 distinct kinds of Gher- 

 kin, viz. the Southern 

 variety {Cornichon Court 

 du Midi), which is more 

 properly a small yellow 

 Cucumber, very produc- 

 tive, and of rapid growth, 

 and the Small Green 

 Paris variety, a more 

 thick-set and more pro- 

 ductive plant, with smaller 

 fruit. 



The Early Frame, or 

 Early Short Pickling, 

 Cucumber, cultivated in 

 the United States, is a 

 handsome, short, early, hardy, and a much less leafing variety 

 than the Southern kinds. 



Gherkin, or Pickling, Cucumber (natural size 

 of young fruit). 



