GEO. COOLING & SONS, BATH. 
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CUCUMBERS. 
Cultivation.— Sow the Frame Varieties from January until March for succession ; care .should be taken to keep up a uniform 
heat, both bottom and atmospheric, which should range from 70 to 80 degrees. When the plants are in bearing an occasional 
watering of liquid manure will assist in swelling out and forwarding the fruit ; care must also be taken that the plants are stopped 
and trained regularly, and not be allowed to make too much wood. " 
Sow the Ridge Varieties in April, and plant towards the end of May in good rich ground. 
LOCKIE’S PERFEC- 
TION, medium size, 
handsome shape, short 
neck ; an immense 
cropper ... 6d. and 
dreadnought, raised at the Royal Gardens, Windsor ; fruits are long deep green 
in colour, flesh crisp and of splendid quality. An enormous cropper, and excellent 
for winter planting 
Cooling's Improved Telegraph Cucumber growing for Seed. (From a Photograph). 
I NOVELTY 
Per packet — s. d. 
COO LI N G’S I M- 
PROVED tele- 
graph, the best 
flav-oured and heaviest 
cropping Cucumber in 
cultivation ; we have 
carefully selected it 
for many years, and 
have succeeded in pro- 
ducingamodelvai’iety. 
Visitors to our Nur- 
series during the 
Summer season are 
astonished at the im- 
mense crop and per- 
fect specimens in the 
houses, growing for 
seed ; the illustration 
shown is from photo- 
graph of one of our 
houses, 60 feet long, 
1/6 & 2 6 
TELEGRAPH, ordin- 
ary stock, 6d. and 1 0 
FROGMORE PROLIFIC, raised in the Royal Gardens ; it is of a beautiful dark green colour, and 
carries a lovely bloom 10 
MARVEL, of medium size, dark green in colour, ribbed, but spineless 10 
TENDER AND TRUE, we offer a selected stock of this fine variety. It is handsome and symmetrical, 
24 to 30 inches long, dark green, excellent quality, and fine for exhibition 1/ and 1 6 
MODEL, a very handsome variety, a cross between Tender and True and Telegraph, perfect in outline, 
and with scarcely any neck 1 o- 
COVENT GARDEN FAVOURITE (Rockford), a very prolific variety, of medium size, largely grown 
for market 6d. and 1 0 
DUKE OP EDINBURGH (DANIELS’), very long, an excellent variety for exhibition ... ... 1 0 
RIDGE OR OUT~DOOR CUCUMBERS. 
Per packet — s. d. 
DDD^ING’S early prolific, the finest Ridge Cucumber in cultivation, a great improvement upon 
all hardy varieties ; it is a selection from a frame variety, and combines all the qualit ies of an in-door 
Cucumber with the hardiness of the Ridge ; it is a black spine and grows 12 to 15 inches long 
GHERKIN OR PICKLING 
LONG RIDGE 
PAIN’S BEDFORDSHIRE RIDGE, one of the best Ridge varieties, of good length and flavour 
STOCKWOOD RIDGE, best for market gardening purposes ... 
ENDIVE. 
Cultivation.— Sow in May, June, or July ; plant in lines about one foot apart upon well-manured land, and water 
during dry weather ; as soon as large enough tie lightly to blanch. „ 
GREEN CURLED, for general crop ... ... ... ... ... ... 0 
IMPROVED ROUND LEAVED BATAVIAN, the most compact variety, blanches easily .. ... ... 0 
MOSS CURLED, very early and ornamental ... . . ... . . ... . . .0 
WHITE CURLED, good for general crop ... ... ... 0 
Cooling’s Improved Telegraph Cucumber has taken a great hold on market growers; it is the most 
prolific and most handsome Cucumber grown. 
