<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/96aceb9d-3de5-49f2-a164-5c85b0a6d598/2797BA82-D442-450F-99C8-94577646F710/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/6066029/Gardener-discovers-swan-cucumber.html" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/6066029/Gardener-discovers-swan-cucumber.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.telegraph.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/6066029/Gardener-discovers-swan-cucumber.html"><H2> A green fingered pensioner was shocked when he discovered an ugly cucumber he'd grown in his greenhouse had blossomed into a beautiful swan. </H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/6066029/Gardener-discovers-swan-cucumber.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.telegraph.co.uk/img/D49D84DD-133D-44EF-AB2D-279ED068B3FF" alt="Cucumber: Gardener discovers 'swan cucumber'" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/6066029/Gardener-discovers-swan-cucumber.html"><P>Gardener Ray Seymour, 76, could not believe his eyes when he saw the resemblance between his deformed cucumber and the stunning birds well known for their beauty. </p> <P> With its beak-like stalk and thin, curved arched neck Ray, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, believes his cucumber is the most beautiful in the country. </p> <P> His proud wife Sheila, 65, said: "Ray has been growing fruit and veg for 30 years but we've never seen anything like it. </p> <P> "We both laughed when he bought it into the kitchen. He spotted the resemblance as soon as he picked it from the vine." </p> <P> But unlike swans, cucumbers are not protected by law and it was unable to fly away from the hungry couple who devoured the green salad favourite for lunch.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2797BA82-D442-450F-99C8-94577646F710/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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