. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use. Gardening. CUCUMBER — DANDELION 479 into each piece of sod and covered with 1 to 2 inches of fine soil. The soil should be well watered and the glass or cloth placed over the frame. The roots will run through the sod. When the plants are large enough to set out, a flat trowel or a shingle may be slipped under the sod and the plants moved to the hill without check. In place of sod, old quart berry-boxes are good; after setting in" the hill the roots may fo
. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use. Gardening. CUCUMBER — DANDELION 479 into each piece of sod and covered with 1 to 2 inches of fine soil. The soil should be well watered and the glass or cloth placed over the frame. The roots will run through the sod. When the plants are large enough to set out, a flat trowel or a shingle may be slipped under the sod and the plants moved to the hill without check. In place of sod, old quart berry-boxes are good; after setting in" the hill the roots may force their way through the cracks in the baskets. The baskets also decay rapidly. Flower-pots may be used. These plants from the frames may be set out when danger of frost is over, usually by the 10th of May, and should make a very rapid growth, yielding good-sized fruits in two months. The hills should be made rich by forking in a quantity of well- rotted manure, and given a slight elevation above the garden — not high enough to allow the wind to dry the soil, but slightly raised so that water will not stand around the roots. The main crop is grown from seed planted directly in the open, and the plants are grown under level culture. One ounce of seed will plant fifty hills of cucumbers. The hills may be 4 to 5 feet 306. West Indian gherkin apart each way. (.Cucumis Anguria). The White Spine is the leading general-purpose variety. For very early or pickling sorts, the Chicago, Russian, and other picklings are good. The striped beetle is an inveterate pest on cucumbers and squashes (see page 201). The name gherkin is applied to small pickling cucumbers. The West India gherkin is a wholly distinct species, but is grown like cucumbers. (Fig. 306.) Dandelion. — Under domestication the dandelion has been devel- oped until quite unrecognizable to the casual observer. The plants attain a large size and the leaves are much more tender. Sow in spring in well-manured soil, either in
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