. 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. Gardening. CUCUMBER West India Gherkin, Cucumis Anguria : Pigs. 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 These varieties are mostly all good for one purpose or another. The sma
. 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. Gardening. CUCUMBER West India Gherkin, Cucumis Anguria : Pigs. 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 These varieties are mostly all good for one purpose or another. The small sorts are natur- ally preferred for pickling, the nied sorts for slicing, and the large, late va rieties for ripe fruits. The Whit Spine varieties are great favorites fo slicing, and only less so for pickling. The unrelenting enemies of the Cucumber in the field are the Cucumber beetles {Dia- brotica, spp.) and the squash bug {Atiasii 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 times 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 CUCUMIS 407 bed in which the temperature of the soil is 70 to 80°. Place them 3 or 4 inches apart. In about ten days they will be large enough to transplant into pots. Six-inch pots are preferred, two plants in each. In two weeks. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may
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