. 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. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. 585. Three prominent varieties of English or Forcing Cucumber. &', Sion House ; E, Duke of Ediuburgh; T, Telegraph. in the same way, and protected for a time by a sash- covered frame placed over each hill. Plants
. 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. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. 585. Three prominent varieties of English or Forcing Cucumber. &', Sion House ; E, Duke of Ediuburgh; T, Telegraph. in the same way, and protected for a time by a sash- covered frame placed over each hill. Plants are some- times started in greenhoiises or hotbeds, to be set later in the open ground; but this method is unsatisfactory unless great pains be taken. The method outlined by Hender- son (Gardening for Profit), of starting plants on inverted sods in hotbeds and greenhouses, has proved successful with some gardeners, but is not capable of wide use. Early cultivation should be sufficient and timely, and ac- companied by very careful combative operations against insects, for the first month is the most critical in the life of the Cucumber plant. When the vines begin to cover the ground, cultivation may be discontinued. Cucumbers are often forced in warmhouses (Fig. 584) in winter and spring. The large English forcing varie- ties, as Telegraph and Sion House (Fig. 585), are preferred by some growers, but the White Spine varieties are more popular in America, especially for spring forcing after lettuce or flowering plants. The plants are started in 3-inch pots, and transferred directly to the benches at intervals of 2)4 to 3 feet. They are then trained on wire trellises near the roof. The English Cucumbers like a night temperature of 60° to 05°, and a day temperature of 70° to 75°. The White Spine varieties are less fastid- ious, and will take a somewhat lower temperature. In forcing Cucumbers, it is very important that the young plants should suffer no check from germination to
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