HOME VEGETABLE GARDENING 
CUCUMBERS 
\ /l/ T HO does not know the handsome, dark green fruits 
* * which, sliced and seasoned, furnish us one of the 
coolest and most refreshing summer salads? Cucumbers 
are a very easily grown vegetable. They require little 
or no care after the seedlings have outgrown the danger 
of being eaten by the little striped beetles which seem 
to prefer young cucumber seedlings to all other food. 
Although the cucumber plants are of a creeping or 
spreading habit of growth, they are easily confined to 
small space by pinching out the centre shoot of vines. A 
dozen hills need not take up more than forty square feet 
of space and will yield a surprising amount of fruits. 
Keeping them picked before they reach full size will 
cause the plants to bear longer. Read pages 230-234 for 
easily followed directions how to grow lots of cucumbers. 
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