The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1864., [Electronic resource]

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Growing cucumbers.

--Take a large barrel or hogshead, saw it in two in the middle, and bury each half in the ground even with the top. Then take a small keg and bore a small hole in the bottom, place the keg in the centre of the barrel, the top even with the ground, and fill in the barrel around the keg with fresh earth, suitable for the growth of cucumbers. Plant your seed midway between the edges of the barrel and keg, and make a kind of arbor a foot or two high for the vines to run on. When the ground becomes dry, pour water, in the keg in the evening; it will pass out of the bottom of the keg into the barrel and rise up to the roots of the vines, and keep them moist and green. Cucumbers cultivated in this way will grow to a great size, as they are made independent both of drought and wet weather.--In wet weather the barrel can be covered, and in dry weather the ground can be kept moist by pouring water in the keg.