We, in America, where vegetables of so many kinds can be had from nature for little more than the asking, can have no idea how much labor and skill has to be exercised before much can be had in any part of the old world. Cucumbers, for instance, have to be raised in wooden frames, or hot-bed sash, and the heat furnished by stable manure, the whole carefully tended day by day, and more added around the outside, as the temperature declines. Under these circumstances every slight advantage in a variety is noticed, so as to get the greatest number and size of products under the few square feet of glass. A new cucumber, "Koenigs-doerffer's Indefatigable," comes highly recommended from a German source.