The art of promoting the growth of the cucumber and melon: in a series of directions for the best means to be adopted; in bringing them to a complete state of perfectionWatkins, Thomas
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The art of promoting the growth of the cucumber and melon: in a series of directions for the best means to be adopted; in bringing them to a complete state of perfection
Watkins, Thomas
Cucumbers; Melons
Let them be kept under the glasses as long as possible, without danger
of injuring them, admitting a small quantity of air in the day-time,
when the weather is warm, by means of a piece of wood, in the form of a
wedge, about seven inches long, five inches wide, flat, and about three
inches at the top. This will enable you to rise or fall the glass
according to the quantity of air necessary to be admitted.
Before placing the vine outside the glasses, it will be necessary to
admit a larger portion of air, both night and day, for three or four
days, in order to harden the plants; then mulch the bed all over with
litter, which will cause the fruit to be kept clean, and the roots
moist, an essential requisite in the culture of cucumbers.
Though moisture is so extremely necessary, yet at all times in the
application of water you must be regulated by the temperature of the
season. If the weather is hot and dry when they come into full bearing,
from three to four gallons of water will be required to each glass every
two or three days, if the soil is light, but if of a strong loamy
nature, less will be sufficient.
Lay out the vines regular, peg them down, and place four half bricks,
that is, one to each corner, under the frame of the glass; or another
method may be adopted, in raising the glass to the south by means of a
piece of stick, about the thickness of a broom-stick, a foot in length,
with three notches cut in it, about two inches apart, for the purpose of
resting the glass upon. This plan is far preferable to the former, in
materially accelerating the growth of the fruit, by preventing too
great a current of air; besides possessing the advantage of easier
access to the plants, when there is a necessity for examining them. It
is, however, requisite when this method is adopted, that the ridges
should always front the south.
If the above directions are strictly attended to, and the season is in
any degree favorable, a plentiful crop of fine fruit may be expected.
DIMENSIONS OF THE BOXES AND LIGHTS FOR
Early and Late Cucumbers.
_Three-light Boxes for October sowing._
The boxes should be made of good seasoned deal, one inch and a half
thick, ten feet seven inches long, four feet three inches wide, and one
foot eight inches deep at the back, and eleven inches in the front. The
bars to be three inches wide, to have two narrow slips two inches in
height, and one slip at each end. The bars to be fluted on each side of
the slips, with oak corners, five inches wide.
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