180 THE FORCING GARDEN. 
perhaps one foot three inches will do if some of the 
dwarfer sorts are wanted. Zion House and Fulmer Early 
are the best free-bearing and dwarf sorts to grow for 
any class of forcing. 
For high-class forcing the Beans should be sown 
three in an eight-inch pot of old hot-bed manure and 
maiden loam of equal parts, giving a good drainage to © 
the pots. They should be placed in a Cucumber house 
or early vinery, but it is necessary in order to be really 
successful, to get as much light as possible to them in 
the early season, so as to get an abundance of large 
Bean pods, and for this purpose a good house is neces- 
sary for them where a brisk and lively heat can be kept 
up, and where the pots can be placed near the glass. 
It is best to fill the pots about two-thirds with a com- 
post (making it moderately firm), and then to place 
the Beans in an angle on it, covering them one and a 
half inches with half dry, light and fine soil—leaf- 
mould two parts and maiden loam one part. Give no 
water till the seed is up, and not much then. As the 
plants get strength and grow above the pots, fill them 
up among the Beans with half-dry compost ; be careful 
of watering too much till the plants get strong and 
begin to show fruit, when more may be given, and as 
soon as the pods begin to come on freely, give some 
weak liquid manure for a few times. 
Beans are liable to the attacks of the red spider, 
when the atmosphere is too hot and dry; so that frequent 
syringing must be resorted to to prevent them, and 
while the Beans are growing freely fumigation will 
prevent the attacks of this pest. 
