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Article XLVI. 



On the Culture and Increafe of a new Species of 

 Ho rfe- Beans fent from Holland. 



Gentlemen, 



ON the 1 2th of March lad, I received from 

 a Member of your Society, two quarts of a 

 new kind of fmall horfe-beans, fent him from 

 Holland. They weighed exactly four pounds. 

 As I did not receive them till all my other beans 

 were planted, I had but little time to prepare the 

 J and for this experiment. 



The fpot I fixed on was part of a very large 

 field intended for turnips, and meafured nearly 

 forty-five perches. As it was very long and nar- 

 row, the foil varied greatly, one end being a 

 heavy fand, apt to run together and bind, when 

 much rain fuddenly follows the time of working 

 it. The other end I am quite at a lofs to name, 

 it being a rude compound of clay and rugged 

 Hones, whofe furface for roughnefs refcmbles a 

 cinder, and greatly obftru£ts the point of the 

 fhare in ploughing. In general this land is very 

 wet, but this feafon {o dry, that it was ploughed 

 with great difficulty; and this part only had a 



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