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BED 



protecting flie roots from excessive | of a frame, (or hand-glass, which will 

 drought, and the direct rays of the ' answer the same purpose,) should have 

 sun. As the crop approaches matu- ' the hills prepared and poles inserted, 

 rity, nothing more is required than : choosing a mild, dry lime, about the 

 n occasional hoeing, observing always' close of May, for planting the beans. 



to keep the ground free from weeds, 



"In selecting a spot to plant beans, 

 choose where the soil is light and tole- 

 rably dry. If it be poor, apply a good 

 dressing of well rotted manure, either 



If wet weather should immediately suc- 

 ceed, and the seed rot, replant as soon 

 as the ground dries. Good crops have 

 been produced in the vicinity of Phila- 

 delphia, when planted even so late as 



spread over the entire surface, or placed first of June, 

 thedrills whendrawnout." — RuralReg. ; " After they become well established, 

 BEANS, Pole. — " The Scarlet Run- | and have clasped the poles, no further 

 jiERs, and White Dutch Beans, are i care is requisite, other than keeping 

 ■verv delicately flavored, and are used \ the weeds under, and the hills occa- 

 either in the pod, or shelled when fur- i sionaliy stirred. 



ther advanced ; but in Pennsylvania, 



The Carolina or Sewee bean, is of 



and perhaps farther south, they bear so a smaller size than the Lima ; much 

 sparingly mostseasons, as to bescarcely , hardier, rather earlier, and more pro- 



worth cultivating. 



" The Lima is too well known to need 

 description. Two varieties are culti- 

 vated ; the one broad and thin, the other 

 much thicker. We have sometimes 

 thought the latter the more tender and 

 delicate when boiled. The Lima Bean 

 js very tender, not bearing the slightest 

 frost, and is very subject to rot when 

 planted early, or during a spell of rainy 

 or damp, cool weather. To guard 

 against this, the best plan is to sprout 



ductive, but generally considered less 

 rich. In other respects they closely 

 resemble each other — time of planting 

 may be a little in advance of the Lima 

 — cultivation precisely the same." — 

 Rural Register. 



BEAN-CAPER. Tygophyllum. 



BEARS-BANE. Aconitum ihereo- 

 phonum. 



BEAR-BIND. Calystegia. 



BEARS-BREECH. Acanthus. 



BEARS-GRAPE. Arctostaphylos vva 



them in a frame, (as recommended for '• ursi. 



the Long Pod or Windsor,) so situated j BEAUFORTIA. Five species. 



that the damp and frost can be exclud- ] Green-house evergreen shrubs. Cut- 



ed. An old hot-bed answers the pur- j tings. Sandy loam and peat. 



pose efi'ectually. They need not be I B E AU MON TI A . Two species, 



planted therein before the middle of ; Stove evergreen twiners. Cuttings and 



spring, nor transplanted till towards its seed. Loam and peat. 



close; a little earlier or later as the, BECIUM 6ico/or. Green-house shrub. 



•weather may make expedient; if planted Cuttings. Sandy loam.* 



early, they will at best remain station-' BED is a comprehensive word, ap- 



ary, and may, perhaps, perish. They plicable to the site on which any culti- 



should be planted in hills in well culti- vated plants are grown. It is most 



vated ground, dressed either in the piece correctly confined to narrow division? 



or hills, with thoroughly rotted manure, 

 from the barn-yard. The hills should 

 be raised three or four inches above the 

 average level, and be three feet apart 

 each way, with a pole six or eight feet 



purposely restricted in breadth for .the 

 convenience of hand weeding or other 

 requisite culture. 



BEDDING-IN. See Sowing. 



BEDDING-OUT, is removing plants 



high, well secured in the ground, to from the pots in which they have been 

 each hill. Three plants in a hill are ; raised, into the beds which they are in- 

 sufficient. As the vines shoot up, they tended to adorn during summer and 

 should be tied to the poles, till they autumn. Mr. Threlkeld gives this judi- 

 get hold, when they will support them cious advice upon the practice. If the 

 selves. In tying them, observe to do it season be dry, in the bottom of the hole 

 in the direction in which they incline to made for the plant put some rotten 

 clasp the pole, which is contrary to the dung, or other material that will retain 

 course of the sun, and opposed to the i water; water this well, plant, fill the 



habit of most climbers. 



hole to within two inches of the sur- 



"Those who have not the convenience , face, add more water, and then fill up 



