The TraBical Kitchen Gardiner. 97 



The cucumber fimply fo calFd, is from of the ^p- 

 the * curvature or figure of it, of which ^^^^^^'7 f 

 there were heretofore but three kinds cnm6eru 

 that were cultivated in the garden 5 that 

 is, the cucumis longior viridis , long 

 green cucumbers 1 the cucumis longior 

 luteusy or long yellow cucumbers 5 cu- 

 cumis frudtu minore. But later years has 

 produced more varieties, vi^. the little 

 fhort early cucumbers, the prickly cu- 

 cumber white and green, the long fmooth 

 green, large fmooth white, and long 

 fmooth yellow cucumbers; all of them 

 of ufe either to eat raw or pickled, for 

 gerkins or mango. 



The feed is a little ovular, pointed 0/ rj?-' 

 at both ends, but fmaller at one ^i^^l ^^^^^^^^^ 

 than the other, of a whitifli colour (in ^^^^ If' 

 oppofition to that of melons, which i^fo-i^ing.^c^ 

 yellow) and is gathered out of the bel- 

 lies of thofe cucumbers that are yellow, 

 the largeft of which are the m.ofl: pro- 

 per for that purpofe. They are planted 

 and propagated after the fame manner 

 that melons arc, but require not fo ftrong 

 an earth as melons do, and requite 



* Cucumis & cucumer (quafi) curvimer a curvitate 

 ejusj &c. CataL Hort. Botan. Oxon. p. 50. 



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