ugh the extremities are sometimes
bitter.

_Prize-fighter._--Length about sixteen inches. Good for the summer crop
or for exhibition.

_Rifleman._--This variety is described as one of the best prize
cucumbers. It has a black spine; always grows very even from stem to
point, with scarcely any handle; carries its bloom well; keeps a good
fresh color; and is not liable to turn yellow as many other sorts.
Length twenty-four to twenty-eight inches. An abundant bearer.

_Ringleader._--A prominent prize sort, about fifteen inches in length.
It succeeds well, whether grown under glass or in the open ground.

_Roman Emperor._--Length twelve to fifteen inches.

_Southgate._--This variety has been pronounced the most productive, and
the best for forcing, of all the prize sorts. It is not so late as many
of the English varieties, and will frequently succeed well if grown in
the open ground.

_Victory of Bath._--Length about seventeen inches. Well adapted for
forcing or for the general crop.

LONG GREEN PRICKLY.

Long Prickly. Early Long Green Prickly.

This is a large-sized variety, and somewhat later than the White-spined.
The plant is a strong grower, and the foliage of a deep-green color; the
fruit is about seven inches in length, straight, and generally angular;
skin dark-green, changing to yellow as the fruit approaches
maturity,--when fully ripe, it is reddish-brown, and is often
reticulated about the insertion of the stem; prickles black; flesh
white, somewhat seedy, but crisp, tender, and well flavored.

The Long Green Prickly is hardy and productive; makes a good pickle, if
plucked while young; and is well deserving of cultivation. It differs
from the London Long Green and the Long Green Turkey in its form, which
is much thicker in proportion to its length; and also in the character
of its flesh, which is more pulpy and seedy.

LONG GREEN TURKEY.

Extra Long Green Turkey.

A distinct and well-defined variety; when full grown, sometimes
measuring nearly eighteen inches in length. Form long and slender,
contracted towards the stem in the form of a neck, and swollen towards
the opposite extremity; seeds few, and usually produced nearest the
blossom-end. The neck is generally solid. While the fruit is young, the
skin is deep-green; afterwards it changes to clear yellow, and finally
assumes a rusty-yellow or yellowish-brown. Flesh remarkably firm and
crisp; exceeding, in these respects, that of any other va