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will have seed of the finest quality. From those you gather green 

 pods, gather all, and you will have an enormous production, lasting 

 until the cruel autumnal frosts make a miserable havoc of the 

 plantation. 



About fifty sorts of kidney beans have been grown in the expe- 

 rimental garden at Stoke Newington. It is equally agreeable and 

 surprising to be able to say that a considerable proportion of them 

 are good, but, as a matter of course, very few are needed in any private 

 garden. We have made a selection of varieties for several classes 

 of cultivators, and hope they will be useful, though unaccompanied 

 with the descriptions that might easily be appended by reference to 

 our notes of the trial they were submitted to last year. 



Dwarf Kidnet Beans. — The best for forcing, and to sow on 

 warm slopes for early crops, are Sion Souse and Sir Joseph Paxton. 

 The best for main crops, a handsome plant, and prodigiously fruit- 

 ful, is the Long-Podded Negro. The following are also good: 

 Mexican Salmon, Fulmer's, and Bun-coloured. The following are 

 not worth growing, except for some special purpose : Newington 

 Wonder, Dwarf Battersea, Black-speckled. 



Intermediate Kidney Beans.— The Paris Market, rising only 

 three to five feet high, is invaluable for its abundant production of 

 large, handsome, tender beans. The Canterbury dwarf rises about 

 three feet, and is the better for being staked. 



Tall-runner Kidney Beans. — The two best and handsomest 

 of this class are Giant White and Common Scarlet. These should 

 be grown in every garden, the white being singularly beautiful and 

 highly productive. The best of such as we may call curious 

 varieties, is the Blue or Purple-podded, which grows about five or 

 six feet high, producing dark bronzy leaves, violet-coloured flowers, 

 and pods of a violet-purple colour. It is moderately productive, 

 and the pods make an excellent dish, being green and tender when 

 cooked. All the white and yellow-podded runners are to be avoided, 

 except by those who have become accustomed to their use, and 

 understand how to cook them. The best of them, both for exhi- 

 bition and the table, is the Yelloiv-podded Algerian. The following 

 are good, and well worth growing, though of secondary importance : 

 White Butch, White Lady, White Scimitar, New Zealand, Liver- 

 coloured, Black-seeded, Painted Lady, or York and Lancaster. The 

 last is extremely pretty. S. H. 



To Destroy Earthworms.— B. S.— The following is a recipe originally pub- 

 lished in the Garden Oracle for 1864 : Corrosive sublimate 1 oz., common salt 1 

 tablespoonful, boiling water 1 pint ; stir till dissolved. Pour the mixture into 9 

 gallons of rain-water, and water the lawn or the soil in flower-pots, wherever, 

 indeed, the worms that annoy are to be found. We must confess we do not under- 

 stand how any real difficulty about getting rid of earthworms can arise in any 

 garden. Lime-water can be made with the least possible amount of trouble, and is 

 always effectual. 



