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t h e trail., long , and green at firft ; te when it ts 
through ripe, a little ye/lowijh, having many Fur- 
rows and uneven Bunehings out the whole length of 
it with long yellmnjb white Hat Seed , lying differ - 
/«/ ;•/! Rb/jV/m 41 tt tsm?, and very regularly thro 
us whole Subft ante. The inward Pulp or Subft ance 
is clear or through thining , which together with the 
Seed is eaten a little before they be fully ripe : of 
this Cucumber there is the fhorter, which is of an 
equal bigne/s in the body thereof ; and the longer, of 
an unequal bignefs at both ends ; and a very long 
one which is near <i foot in length : the) e is aljo the 
early kind , called the French kind, which are the 
worftof all-, and the Dantisk kind, which bears but 
j'niall print, growing on Jhort Branches or Runners , 
of which kind the Cucumbeis we ufually Tickle 
jre \Si. The fecond , or Long Serpentine Cucumber, 
has a Root much like the former , having long trailing 
Branches Tendre/s and Leaves , ( tho' leffer ) much 
like the 'former . The Fruit , fays Gerard, it very 
long (and Jomething twining , like a Serpent or 
Snake) which (fays he) were at firft made by Art 
and Manuring , and were afterwards fo brought forth 
by Nature : for at firft , when the Fruit was fmall 
ami little , it was pul into fame hollow Cane , or other 
like thing made of purpofe , in which the Cucumber 
did grow, and that in length according as the Cafe it 
was cnclcfed in would permit it. It grew long by 
reafon of the narrow Hollownefs in which it was en- 
clofed, which being JH/ed up, it encreafed in length. 
The Seeds of this kind of Cucumber being fown , 
bring forth not Jiich as it were before this Application 
of Art ; but fitch as thefe are which Art has framed, 
which now of their own Growth are long, and often- 
times very crookedly turned whence came the Name 
Anguini, or Long Cucumbers. 
V. The third, or Pear-like falhioned Cucumber, 
has a fibrous or thready Root, from whence come ma- 
ny trailing Branches , lying flat upon the Ground , 
rough and prickly ; whereon do Jiand at each Joint , 
one rough Leaf. , fliarp-poinled , and of an over-worn 
green color : among which come forth clafpmg T en- 
drels, and alfo ] lender Foot-ftalks, on which do grow 
yellow Star-like Flowers : the Fruit is at firft green 
and longifh , which coming to its bignefs, forms it f elf 
much tike to a Pear, greenifh on one fide, and of a 
whitifh green on the other, and ts much about the 
largenefs of a great Warden : the Seed is long, flat 
and whitifh, like the other. 
VI. The fourth , or Spanilh kind, ( which were 
brought out cf Spain firft to Strasburgh, and from 
thence to us ) is a rare and beautiful Cucumber : it 
blit a fibrous Root, from whence come forth rough 
and hairy trailing Branches, fet with very large 
rough Leaves, Jharp-pointed , in Form like unto the 
Leaves of the great Bur-dock, but more cut in or 
divided : among which at the Joints come forth up- 
on tender Foot-ftalks, fair, naked yellow Flowers -, 
the which being paft, the Fruit comes in its place a 
foot in length , green on the fide towards the Ground, 
and yellow 1 fh on the Sunny part, ft raked with many 
Spots and Lines of divers colors, whofe Pulp or Meat 
is hard and faft, like that of our Melon or Pom- 
pion. 
VII. The Places. Thefe Cucumbers all grow rn 
Gardens, not only in England, but in molt parts of 
the World, efpecially in all the more Southern 
Countries, where the Heat of the Sun makes them 
to grow and fiourilh admirably well. 
VIII. The Times. They are planted in April, 
and thev are fit for eating in June , July and Au- 
guft . and the Seed is fully ripe about the latter end 
of September. 
IX. An Observation about Planting then. About 
the middle of April, or lomething looner, ( it the 
Weather is warm ) you mull make a Bed or Bank 
of hot and new Horle-dung, taken from the Stable* 
and not from the Dung hill, of an Ell in breadth, 
and two feet and half in depth, but oi what length 
you pleafe, accordingly as it may hold the quantity 
or numbers of the Seed you intend to ule : this Bank 
you lhall cover with Hoops or long Bender Sticks, 
fo bent and bowed, that you may cover the whole 
Bank or Bed with Mats or fome other warm Co- 
vering, Straw, or the like, to keep it from the In- 
jury of cold trolly Nights, that the Seeds which 
are planted ot fown, may not be nipt : then lhall 
you cover your Bed over with the bell and fatteft 
Earth, finely lifted thro 1 a Wire Sieve, that it may 
be half a foot thick, in which you lhall fet or fow 
your Seed : this being done, call your Straw or o- 
ther Coverture .over the fame, and fo let it left 
without looking upon it, ot taking away of your 
Covering, for the fpace of feven or eight days at 
mod -, tor commonly in that fpace ot time they 
thruft themfelves thro 1 the Earth. Then mult you 
call upon them, in the hotteft time ol the day, fome 
Water which has ltood in the Houle or the Sun a 
day before, or Water of which the Cold is juft ta- 
ken off; for otherwife, if the Water call upon them 
is juft taken forth out of the Pump or Well, it will 
fo cool and chill them , being brought forth and 
nourilhed in fuch a hot place, that prefently, even 
in one day, you will have kill'd all your Plants ; 
your Plants will not only be kill’d, but your Bank 
alfo will be chill’d and loofe its Heat. 
X. Obferv. 2. This is alfo to be noted, That 
the young Plants mull every day when the Sun 
(hines warm, be opened and expofed to its Beams, 
and at Evening every Night they mult be covered a- 
gain ; this muft be done from time to time, tiU 
the Plants have four or fix Leaves apiece, and that 
the Danger of the cold Nights and nipping Seafon is 
paft ; then they muft be replanted with a great deal 
of Care, taking each Plant up with the Earth flick- 
ing to its Root, and they muft be placed as near as 
may be in the moll fruitful and fat Soil and in 
that part of the Garden which is moll lheltred from 
Cold and piercing Winds, and where the Sun Ihines 
warmeft. Now, you muft alfo obferve. That upon 
this Replantation, you mull cover them with fome 
thin Mats or Wifps of Straw, propped up with 
forked Sticks or fome fuch-like thing ; and this 
thing is to be done every Night, to keep them from 
the Cold of the Night, and fometimes in the Day- 
time, to keep them Horn the too great Heat of the 
Sun ; otherwife, tho’ you have brought your Work 
thus far on, all your Labor may be loft : for they 
cannot, whilll they be young and newly planted, 
endure either over-much Cold or over-much Heat, 
till they be well rooted and fixed in this their new 
Habitation. 
XI. Obferv. 3. Sometimes it falls out that fome 
Seeds are more forward than the reft, and therefore 
do commonly rife up very nakedly, with long 
Necks, not much unlike to the Stalk of a fmall 
Mujhroom of a Night old. This naked Stalk you 
muft cover with the like fine Earth, even up to the 
green Leaves : you muft alfo have that regard to 
your hot Bank, fo to place it, that by its Situation 
it may be defended from the North, North-Eaft and 
Eaft Winds. If thefe InUruftions be carefully ob- 
ferved, you never will have caufe to complain that 
your Seeds were not good, nor your Clime too cold 
or intemperate, by reafon of which you lhould be 
frufttated in having of Fruit ; but if your Seed is 
hard, plump, firm and good, it will certainly prove 
fruitful, tho’ in the moll Northern pans of Scot- 
