Archive image from page 226 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom cyclopediaofamer02bail Year: 1906 CUCUMBER CUCUMIS 407 West India Gherkin. Cucumis Anguria: Figs. 590, 591. Vines small and slender, somewhat resembling a slender water- melon plant; fr. very abundant, sm
Archive image from page 226 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom cyclopediaofamer02bail Year: 1906 CUCUMBER CUCUMIS 407 West India Gherkin. Cucumis Anguria: Figs. 590, 591. Vines small and slender, somewhat resembling a slender water- melon plant; fr. very abundant, small, ellipsoid, covered with warts and spines, green, tardily whitening. Good for pickles. varieties are mostly all good for one purpose or another. The small sorts are natur- ally preferred for pickling, the medium sorts for slicing, and the large, late va- rieties for ripe fruits. The White Spine varieties are great favorites for slicing, and only less so for pifkling. The unrelenting enemies of the Cucumber in the iield are the Cucumber beetles [Dia- brotica, spp.) and the squash bug {Anasa trisiis). No effectual preventive measures are known except to cover the young plants with small wire or hoop frames, over which fine netting is stretched. If the plants are kept quite free from attack till these protec- tors are outgrown, they will usually suffer lit- tle damage. Plants started in hotbeds or green- houses (see above) may usually be kept free at first, and this is the chief advantage of such practices. The Cu cumber beetles are kept away somewhat at tmies by strewing tobacco stems thickly under the plants ; and kerosene emulsion will sometimes discommode the young squash bugs without killing the vines, but usu- ally not. 'In the greenhouse, Cucumbers are liable to damage from mite, aphis, root-gall and mildew. Forthe 587. Pistillate flow Cucumis Melo. Natural bed in which the temperature of the soil is 70 to 80°. Place them M or 4 inches apart. In about ten days t
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