CUCUMBER — Continued. 
Carters Improved Telegraph 
Improved Early White Spine. An excellent variety, which produces an early crop of crisp, tender, well- 
flavoured cucumbers. They are a light green in colour, with white spines of medium size. A great 
favourite. Price, .10 per pkt. ; .20 per oz. ; 1.26 per lb. 
Arlington White Spine. — A strain of White Spine that has been improved through careful selection 
with a view of use for starting in hothouses and frames. 
Price, .10 per pkt. ; .26 per oz. ; 1.60 per lb. 
Japanese Climbing. — Can be grown on a trellis for decoration; very prolific. 
Price, .10 per pkt. ; .30 per oz. ; 3.00 per lb. 
Improved Long Green. — This is a late sort, of great length, and the fruit is very crisp and tender. 
Price, .10 per pkt. ; .20 per oz. ; 1.26 per lb. 
Carters Outdoor Cucumber. — The longest hardy Cucumber. Fruit of a good shape and colour, and of 
fine flavour. Price, .25 per pkt. ; .50 per oz. ; 1.50 per l /£ lb. 
Davis Perfect. — Excellent variety of good habit. Colour dark green ; 10 to 12 inches long. 
Price, .10 per pkt. ; .25 per oz. ; .75 per % lb. 
Carters Miniature Cluster. — The best for pickling or salad. Price, .15 per pkt. ; .30 per oz. 
Carters Prickly Ridge. — A hardy variety of easy culture. Price, .15 per pkt. ; .30 per oz. 
Everbearing. — Of medium size, good shape, early and productive. Price, .10 per pkt. ; .25 per oz. 
Gherkin. — Very extensively used for pickling. Price, .15 per pkt. ; .30 per oz. 
Cultivation of Cucumber. — For early use sow April 1st in hotbeds, upon inverted grass sods, so that they can be readily 
transplanted to the open ground in rich soil when all danger of frost is past. For outdoor cultivation sow the seed when 
the weather becomes settled and warm, in hills from 4 to 0 feet apart each way. Thin out to four of the strongest plants 
to a hill after danger from insects is over. These plants exist best in a warm, moist, rich, loamy soil. Continue planting 
at intervals for a succession. Cucumbers should be gathered when large enough for use, whether required or not, because 
if left to ripen they spoil their productiveness. For pickles plant in June and July. One ounce of seed will plant fifty hills, 
two pounds to the acre. 
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