1898 
form a tube, turned and filled lightly 
with cotton. Collect all the scraps of 
silk about the house that are available 
for no other purpose. Cut in strips one- 
half inch wide and seven or eight inches 
long. These are to be fringed out by 
drawing the outer threads till only a 
narrow portion, about one-eighth inch, 
remains in the middle. Two or three of 
these fringed strips are then caught in 
the middle, and with a crochet hook of 
suitable size, drawn through a mesh of 
the mosquito netting and secured after 
the manner of ordinary fringing. 
After thus inserting in the foundation, 
draw the ends over a dull knife or paper 
cutter and they will curl sufficiently to 
simulate the natural curl of the ostrich 
feather. Use as many of these groups 
of fringed silk as may be necessary to 
give the boa a full, fluffy appearance. 
Where plenty of black silk is available, 
it may be used without further prepara¬ 
tion. If one happen to have silk pieces 
of contrasting colors, black with a little 
yellow, or black with pink, form pretty 
combinations. If the boa is desired for 
dressy occasions, white is, perhaps, the 
most desirable and universally becom¬ 
ing. White and a delicate fawn or gray, 
used in about equal proportions, make a 
boa that cannot be distinguished at a 
little distance from one of feathers. 
This method of utilizing narrow strips 
of silk or ribbon has much to recom¬ 
mend it, as it disposes of an immense 
amount of material left useless by the 
decline of the crazy quilt. The fringing 
is pretty and light work, well adapted 
to evenings at home when the tired 
brain refuses to plan, but the fingers 
welcome some mere mechanical em¬ 
ployment. If one wearies of the task, 
it may be brought to a halt at any time 
after 13 inches are achieved, a satin rib¬ 
bon being sewed to each end, and the 
boa being simply tied close about the 
throat. But 1)4 yard will not be too 
long for the patience of those who de¬ 
sire a pretty thing, even though its 
acquisition mean some trouble. 
ELLA H. COOPER. 
On the Wing. 
GLASS GARDENING IN THE BAY ST A TE 
THE HOME OF TIIE MARSHALL STRAW¬ 
BERRY ; WHERE TIIE CUCUM¬ 
BERS COME FROM. 
(Continued .) 
[editorial correspondence.] 
Variety Grown. —These Massachu¬ 
setts cucumbers are all selected varieties 
of White Spine. They run about 10 
inches long, and are smooth and even in 
shape, any deformed specimens being 
culled out. Different seedsmen offer 
different strains of seed, but they all 
amount to practically the same thing, 
being selected with a view to greenhouse 
use. The long English sorts, such as 
Rollison’s Telegraph, Duncan’s Victoria 
(which attains a length of 28 inches), 
Victory of England, etc., are not grown. 
There is no demand for them, and they 
do not sell in the general market. A 
good many private gardeners grow them 
for home consumption, but the general 
market desires the familiar White Spine, 
to which it is accustomed. 
Fertilizing the Flowers.— Bees are 
employed to impregnate the cucumber 
flowers, one or more swarms being used 
in a house, according to its size. This is 
the common practice with all the grow¬ 
ers, but Mr. Kendall informed me that 
he supplemented this by some hand fer¬ 
tilizing, also. It happens, sometimes, 
that there is a scarcity of pollen-bearing 
flowers in one house, and a preponder¬ 
ance of them in another, and the bees 
are then unable to perform their duties 
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properly, when unassisted. When pollen- 
ization has failed, the embryo fruit fails 
to mature. Viewing the fruiting pro¬ 
cess under glass, one realizes how much 
we owe to the insects which voluntarily 
aid the outdoor crops. 
Cucumber Enemies. —One of the com¬ 
monest troubles attacking cucumbers 
under glass is stump-foot, which is anala- 
gous to club-root in cabbage and other 
plants. Its presence is often marked by 
the sudden wilting of the cucumber 
vine, which may occur at any stage of 
growth. There appears to be no cure 
for it, neither is any preventive sug¬ 
gested with authority. I asked whether 
new soil, in which cucumbers had never 
been grown before, appeared to prevent 
this trouble, but was informed that it 
appears quite as impartially in new as 
in old soil. The only thing that the 
grower can do is to pull out the affected 
vine and destroy it. What is described 
as “ wilt ” in cucumbers often appears to 
be the manifestation of stump-foot above 
ground, in many cases. Aphis and Red 
spider are two insect enemies which may 
attack the cucumbers under unfavorable 
conditions ; like all other insect enemies, 
it is more blessed to prevent than to cure. 
Heredity and Atavism. —These are 
two big words to use in connection with 
plain cucumbers. Heredity, we know, 
is the direct transmission of traits from 
an immediate ancestor ; atavism, a re¬ 
version to a remote ancestor or a primi¬ 
tive type. A good cucumber follows in 
the line of its immediate White-Spine 
ancestors, and the seed is so carefully 
selected that one would think there is 
little risk of any reversion. Yet, every 
now and then, the cucumber grower 
finds among his plants two reverted 
types. One is a black-spine cucumber, 
the other Mr. Kendall calls a “ fuzz- 
back,” from its heavy growth of small 
spines. The fuzz-back is badly shaped, 
and should not be marketed with good 
cucumbers, so the grower usually pulls 
out both fuzz-back and black-spine plants 
as soon as they declare themselves. Mr. 
Kendall declares, however, that the 
fuzz-back plants are usually very strong 
growers, and he thinks it quite possible 
that, by perpetually refining and narrow¬ 
ing the strain, casting out such intrud¬ 
ers, we may continually weaken the 
vitality of the cucumbers. It is quite 
possible that with plants, as with ani¬ 
mals, a perpetual breeding for certain 
ideal qualities may weaken the innate 
vitality. 
Shipping to Market. —The cucumbers 
are packed in boxes for market, the box 
holding six to eight dozen. The boxes 
are lined with paper, and the cucumbers 
packed evenly, so that they do not shake 
about. They are carefully selected, so 
that the contents of a box will run even 
in size. Years ago there was little uni¬ 
formity in packing, but now all the 
growers pack in the same style. Swollen 
or irregularly-shaped fruits are not mar¬ 
ketable, and should never be packed 
with the perfect cucumbers. Experienced 
growers recognize this; the situation is 
very different from the long-past years 
when hothouse cucumbers sold for 75 
cents to $1.50 each. 
Cucumbers in the Frame.— In addition 
to the glasshouse cucumbers, which are 
kept going until on in the Summer, an 
early outside crop is grown in frames. 
The frames are first occupied by lettuce, 
afterwards, when warmer, by tomato 
plants, cucumber plants being set there 
about June 1. From these frames, 
cucumbers are gathered about July 4. 
When the vines get too large for the 
frames the board sides are removed, thus 
allowing the vine to trail outside ; the 
only disadvantage of this is, as one 
grower remarked, that the pickers may 
grow careless and trample the vines. 
There is no need to try an outside crop 
MOTHERS.—Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It ii the Beat.— Adv. 
of cucumbers earlier than the time 
named, because of the ample greenhouse 
crop. 
Cucumbers to Follow Lettuce. —It is 
the practice with some of the growers to 
grow cucumbers and lettuce in rotation. 
Two crops of lettuce are taken off before 
the end of November, and then the 
cucumbers are planted. Apart from the 
economy of space (for the house is thus 
constantly at work) it is an advantage 
to alternate the cucumbers with a cool 
crop, tending to prevent the propagation 
of thrips, which is a high-temperature 
insect. The lettuce takes a night tem¬ 
perature of only 35 to 50 degrees ; the 
cucumbers 65 to 70 degrees. 
At W. Proctor’s place, near Fitchburg, 
the second crop of lettuce was growing 
along, the first week in November. This 
would be marketed about Thanksgiving, 
and the cucumber plants then started. 
While the cucumber plants were small, 
radishes would be sown between the 
rows; these would be merely a catch 
crop. When the cucumbers were more 
advanced, it would be impossible to grow 
any other crop under them. e. t. r. 
'To be continued.) 
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