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roots, grew very ftrong, and even as full of bloom 

 before winter as they had been in the fummer. 

 Many of them filled very well, and we had two or 

 three dreflings as good and as well flavoured as any 

 of the fummer. To have two crops of beans from 

 the fame roots, is, I believe, a very uncommon 

 infl^ance of vegetation, and certainly was owing to 

 nothing but well-timed and efFedlual hoeings and 

 digging the intervals. The remainder of the plot 

 flood for feed; the feafon for getting them in being 

 rather unfavourable, fome of the pods opened, and 

 the beans dropped. As foon as they were houfed, 

 the ground was well dug to prepare it for a winter 

 crop. The beans that were fcattered were dug in 

 unnoticed, and before the end of November were 

 fliot up two feet high, very ftrong and luxuriant. 

 I took up feveral of them carefully, to obfcrve the 

 progrcfs of their growth. The beans from which 

 they fliot firmly adhered to the llalk, from whence 

 it appeared, that in digging the ground fome of 

 them had been buried feven or eight inches deep, 

 it being fo much from the bean to the furface of 

 the ground, and this, infteadof a ftalk, had put on 

 the appearance of a root, and was full of lateral 

 branches and fibres the whole length. Below the 

 bean the root had penetrated, in fome eleven, in 

 others twelve inches. How much of the fine 

 fibres might be broken off cannot be known. Ccr- 



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