Gourds, pumpkins, melons and cucumbers all of them are very common and highly popular fruit vegetables and dessert fruits all over India. Besides, every one of them occurs in bewildering varieties differing from one another chiefly in colour, shape, size, surface patterns, consistencies and delicacies of their fruits as well as in the many details of leaf, climbing patterns, hairiness of the stem and so on. Quite commonly these several varieties are restricted to different regions of our vast country and every region would to claim that its particular variety alone is the best! Among these, cucumbers are botanically known to have been evolved in India itself. Naturally its reference occurs very commonly even in the Vedic Literature, where it is referred to as trvaru. Its cultivated varieties available in the different parts of our country now are also phenomenally large in number.