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recommended. The soil should never be worked 
or put in use in a wet state, as it is thereby liable 
to set hard, and to be rendered unkind. For early 
forcing', it should be protected from wet a few 
weeks previous to its being wanted for use. It 
is said by some that using soils more than once 
brings on the Canker. This is not the case. 
Some of our first Cucumber growers use the same 
soil for several years, with only adding' a moderate 
portion of decayed manure, and alloAving the whole 
to be exposed to the weather through the autumn 
and winter months, with the greatest success. 
When the bed is ready, a flue should be formed 
in tile centre, where each plant is to be planted, 
in the following manner : Two bricks on each 
side may be joined end to end, directing a line 
from the back to the front of the frame, on the 
surface of the manure, leaving’ a space of about 
six inches betwixt them. They will require co- 
vering with a grey or blue slate, about a foot 
wide and twenty inches long', or tiles may be 
made purposely of clay, being of a flat round at 
the top, and having sides of three or four inches 
deep, so as when fixed on the bed, it may form a 
similar flue to that made of bricks and slate. 
This practice will answer two essential ob- 
jects. First, it will afford a good ojiportunity of 
planting out the plants permanently, as soon as 
the bed is warm enough, without waiting the 
decline of the strongest heat, providing the efflu- 
vium of the bed is so pure as not to injure the 
