1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
823 
On the Wing. 
GLASS GARDENING IN THE BAY STA TE 
THE HOME OF THE MARSHALL, STRAW¬ 
BERRY ; WHERE THE CUCUM¬ 
BERS COME FROM. 
{Continued.) 
[editorial correspondence.] 
TnE Garden of Cucumbers —The an¬ 
cient sage who sighed for a lodge 
in a garden of cucumbers, would find 
Leominster very much to his taste. 
It is rather surprising to a New Yorker 
to find that most of the glasshouse cu¬ 
cumbers coming into the market come 
from this town among the Massachu¬ 
setts hills. The tendency of the locality 
appears to be in the direction of inten¬ 
sive horticulture and careful fruit grow¬ 
ing—hence the well-kept orchards and 
long ranges of grass. 
The prime mover of the cucumber en¬ 
terprise is Mr. G. M. Kendall, a shrewd, 
far-seeing citizen, whose success induced 
many others to go into the business. Mr. 
Kendall says frankly that some of his 
ideas in cucumber-growing are directly 
opposed to the practices of other success¬ 
ful growers ; they get results, and he 
gets results, and he sticks to the plans 
he finds successful. 
The Kendall Cucumber House. —Mr. 
Kendall has been building cucumber 
houses for a number of years. His per¬ 
sonal success led to a great extension of 
this business, and he is known as a spec¬ 
ialist in this one line of building. The 
houses are even span, with a roof a lit¬ 
tle less than one-third pitch. They may 
be all the way from 100 to 400 feet long ; 
the usual width is 23 feet. They should 
run north and south and, if there is a 
slight rise toward the south, say one foot 
in 100, so much the better. A founda¬ 
tion wall of stone or brick is put in and, 
above this, a four-foot side wall, two 
feet of boards and two feet of glass. The 
rafters are of wood, and the house is 
glazed with 16 x 24-inch glass. At the 
peak of the roof are ventilators 3x4 
feet, every 10 feet, on alternate sides. 
On the side walls, there are windows 
nine or 10 feet long, opening with hinges, 
every 25 feet on both sides; they are for 
convenient access in putting in soil or 
other materials. The roof is double- 
glazed from the wall to the ventilators; 
this air space prevents the vines from 
being frosted by going against the glass 
in severe weather. Rigidity is given by 
iron supports and braces. 
Heating and Beds. —The soil is in 
solid beds, having sides of board or 
cement. In a 23-foot house, there are 
three beds, one in the center and one on 
either side, with two narrow walks. 
There are 22 rows of three-inch pipes for 
heating, four being put overhead, in the 
center of the house, and the others be¬ 
ing arranged down either side, under the 
side beds and under the walks, but not 
under the center bed. The arrangement 
of the heating pipes is sometimes varied, 
but the above is Mr. Kendall’s usual 
mode. 
The soil is extremely rich with stable 
manure. All the glass gardeners show 
a firm faith in stable manure and lots of 
it. We must bear in mind, however, 
that it is not merely the fertilizing value 
in the manure that gives the results; 
the heat supplied by it is, also, an im¬ 
portant factor. 
Renewing the Beds. —When a rose 
grower makes a new planting, he care¬ 
fully removes all the soil from the green¬ 
house benches, and replaces it with per¬ 
fectly fresh earth. The cucumber grow¬ 
ers whom I saw don’t do this, but they 
add a heavy supply of manure for each 
crop. The earth (above solid ground) 
is about 14 inches deep. One man told 
me that, in preparing the soil, he first 
put manure and sods in a compost heap, 
half and half, then chopped down the 
MOTHERS.—Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
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while Teething. It ia the Beat.— Adv. 
pile, and again mixed half the bulk of 
manure. 
After a crop is taken off, before re¬ 
planting, about four inches of the soil 
are removed from the top, and manure 
forked in in its place. A ridge of ma¬ 
nure is put along the bed, in a trench, 
which is then filled up, where the cucum¬ 
bers are to go in the center bed. The 
little plants being thus set on the manure, 
make an astonishing growth. The grow¬ 
ers make allowances for a period of 
eight weeks from seed to cucumber, but, 
of course, the time will vary from out¬ 
side conditions. 
Planting and Transplanting. —The 
seed is sown in boxes, and pricked out 
from these into six-inch pots, two plants 
in a pot. The cucumber will not endure 
a chill, and many seedlings are lost by 
carelessness in pricking out. The seed- 
box is, of course, standing in a warm 
place, where it receives sufficient bottom 
heat to hold the soil at a high tempera¬ 
ture. If, then, the little plantlet is 
pricked out into soil at the temperature 
of the outside air, the shock is quite 
enough to injure, or even to kill it. There 
is little doubt that many losses described 
as “ damping off” are directly attribut¬ 
able to this shock. Mr. Kendall described 
his plan for obviating this, which is both 
simple and ingenious. 
The soil into which the tiny cucumbers 
are to be transplanted is brought in and 
pre pared for use. Large stones are heate d 
to a high temperature, and buried in the 
soil, which is stirred over them until the 
entire pile shows a temperature equal to, 
or exceeding, that in which the seeds 
germinated. The plantlets are then 
pricked off into the prepared soil; they 
receive no shock in transition, and take 
hold at once. 
The Next Move. —The young vines 
grow with great rapidity after the move 
to the pots, and are soon ready for the 
beds. Mr. Kendall puts two plants to¬ 
gether in a hill, so to speak, the hills 42 
inches apart. If a very robust growth 
be made, it may be necessary to cut out 
one of the vines, but the two being put 
together avoids the risk of a gap, should 
one fail. In the Kendall houses, the 
cucumbers are trained up to the roof, 
and carried along wires about one foot 
below the glass, forming, in time, a net¬ 
work of vines overhead. Some of the 
growers, however, have a trellis shaped 
like an inverted Y running along the 
middle of the bed, a row of cucumbers 
being trained up over it from either side. 
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I saw this plan in use at the great Raw- 
son place, at Arlington. 
How the Plants Grow. —It is natural 
that these vines should rush along when 
planted, when we consider the condi¬ 
tions. The soil is light, but it has been 
tremendously enriched. The trench for 
the extra manure is about one foot wide, 
and one foot of manure is put in. This 
is fresh and strawy. Little pruning or 
pinching out is given to the vines, only 
for the removal of weak shoots, which 
are obviously unsuited to fruiting. The 
tip of the shoot may be pinched out 
when the plant has made as much 
growth, in length, as is desired. 
In November, December, and January, 
under usual conditions, the vines grow 
more slowly than later, when they have 
the influence of stronger sunlight. They 
get plenty of light, for the houses are 
all detached. Instead of running to¬ 
gether, like a range of rose or carna¬ 
tion houses, the cucumber houses are 
built apart, with at least 10 feet of clear 
space between them. This is a matter 
of convenience, for it is necessary to have 
space for driving along the house with 
soil and manure. Of course, a shed or 
boiler house may run along the end, thus 
connecting the houses, without affect¬ 
ing the intervening spaces. e. t. r. 
(To be continued.) 
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