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- center of each square, and in this hole six seeds were planted and 
the whole bed covered about a half inch deep with fine soil, thus 
making the seeds about an inch deep. The seeds were planted 
May 20 and the plants were put in the open ground June 16. 
After the seed was sown the bed was not watered till the 
plants had come up. , With melons and cucumbers the seed is 
quite liable to rot if the ground is watered before the plants come 
up. When the plants were transplanted each sod with the plants 
contained in it was taken from the frame and set in a hill prepared 
in the manner described for pole lima beans. Seep. 553. The 
plants were watered and shaded for a week or ten days, till they 
became established in their new location. Three plants were_ 
allowed to remain for each hill. They were dusted plentifully 
with tobacco powder whenever it seemed necessary to protect 
them from aphis and other delicate insects. The tobacco powder 
was applied when the plants were wet. Beginning two or three 
weeks after the plants were set in the open ground they were 
given every week an application of liquid manure diluted with an 
equal quantity of water. This was applied at the rate of a half 
gallon to the hill for each application. The vines were pinched 
back at the third joint and as fast as the laterals appeared 
throughout the season they were treated’in the same manner. 
The surface of the soil was kept mellow the same as with the 
other crops previously mentioned. After the vines began to bear 
they were given a solution of nitrate of soda. An ounce of the 
nitrate of soda was dissolved in a gallon of ‘water and each hill 
was given about a quart of this solution two or three times during 
the season. They were packed in boxes made of the material 
described for bean boxes on p. 548; the size of the boxes varied 
according to the length of the cucumbers. The following is a 
list of the varieties shipped : | 
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