Cucumber

Said Miss Cucumber: "I have brought
My fan, because the day is hot;
Our family have a splendid rule, -
Whatever happens, we keep cool."

 

       Assemble a mini doll sized book: Right, is the cucumber's illustration and verse. Visitors can collect all the vegetable illustrations and verse from "Mother Earth's Children" to print and construct a small book of verse for their dolls. Simply drag each png. into a Word Document, print, cut out all of the images the same size and staple the pages together at the left edge. Squeeze out some white school glue along the stapled edge of the pages and attach a cardboard cover.

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More About Cucumbers:

• The wild cucumber
• Sculpt fruits/veggies from the melon or cucumber family
• Veggies, chips and cheese trays for doll parties! 
• Where From poem    
  

Lord Cucumber. See a
dancing pickle here!

 

Left,  is an example of Lord Pickle, the vegetable doll made using a long cucumber, five toothpicks and a bit of simple carving for his face.

"The Wild Balsam - Apple or as some people call it, the wild cucumber, is very decorative. That means it has beautiful curves and twists, and it's small, white flowers, prickly, egg-shaped fruit, and long tendrils twisted spirally, like a steel watch-spring let loose, make us love to look at it. The leaves are pretty, too, being shaped almost like a five-pointed star. Sometimes this vine is cultivated and you will find it trained up on strings to shade the porch, or over the kitchen-door of a farmhouse. Wherever you find it, it is beautiful. A large jar filled with sprays of the wild balsam makes a good centre piece for the table, or a tall vase holding some upright and some drooping sprays looks very pretty when placed near a window where the light will fall on it. Do not mix other flowers with it, its own blossoms are sufficient for a grand display." The Beard Sisters.

 

The wild-cucumber vine also was once called wild balsam apple.