Globe Cucumber

Concombre des prophètes. Vil. Cucumis prophetarum.

A tender annual from Arabia. Stem slender, creeping, and furnished with tendrils, or claspers. The leaves are about three inches in diameter, five-lobed, and indented on the borders; the flowers are axillary, yellow, and nearly three-fourths of an inch in diameter; the fruit is round, and rarely measures an inch in thickness; skin striped with green and yellow, and thickly set with rigid hairs, or bristles; the seeds are small, oval, flattened, and of a yellowish color.

Planting and Culture.—The seeds should be planted at the time of planting cucumbers or melons, in hills four or five feet apart, and covered about half an inch deep. Thin to two or three plants to a hill.

Use.—The fruit is sometimes eaten boiled; but is generally pickled in its green state, like the common cucumber.

As a table vegetable, it is comparatively unimportant, and not worthy of cultivation.