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fine days, and there watering them with ' to clasp the pole, which is contrary to 



cold water. 



If the season is too ungenial after all 

 to remove them even to a warm border 



the course of the sun, and opposite to 

 the habit of most climbers. 



Those who have not the convenience 



the plants are ofYen inserted in patches, of a frame, (or hand-glass which will 

 to have the protection of frames or answer the same purpose,) should have 

 hand lights at night, or as the weather i the hills prepared and poles inserted, 

 demands. choosing a mild, dry time, about the 



Said to be perennial. — It has been : close of May, for planting the beans, 

 stated, that kidney beans appear of a If wet weather should '^immediately 

 perennial nature, 'and that they have succeed, and the seed rot, replant as 

 been observed to vegetate for several soon as the ground dries. Good crops 

 years — the plants being in the vicinity 1 have been produced in the vicinity of 

 of a steam-engine, and so situated that Philadelphia, when planted even so late 

 the frost could not penetrate to the as first of June. 

 roots. i After they become well established, 



Beans, Pole. — The Scarlet Runners,! and have clasped the poles, no further 

 and While Dutch Beans, are very deli- i care is requisite, other than keeping the 

 cately flavoured, and are used either | weeds under, and the hills occasionally 

 in the pod, or shelled when further stirred. 



advanced; but in this section of the; The Carolina or Sewee bean, is of a 

 country, and perhaps further South, they : smaller size than the Lima; much 

 bear so sparingly most seasons, as to be I hardier, rather earlier, and more pro- 

 ecarcely worth cultivating. | ductive, but generally considered less 



The Lima is too well known to need j rich. In other respects they closely 

 description. Two varieties are cuiti- resemble each other — time and mode 

 vated ; the one broad and thin, the of planting may be a little in advance 

 other much thicker. We have some- of the Lima — cultivation precisely the 

 times thought. the latter the more tender ! same. — Rural Reg. 



anu delicate when boiled. The Lima i Beavs, English. Vicia Faba, of 

 Bean is very tender, not bearing the i JAnnceus. Feve de marais, Fr. Bohn, 

 slighted frost, and is very subject to rot \ Ger. Fava, Hal. Habas, Span. 

 when planted early, or during a spell ofi Of the above kind, commonly called 

 rainy or damp cool weather. To guard j in this country " Horse Bean," there is 

 against which, the best plan is to sprout considerable variety ; two of them have 

 them in a frame, (as recommended for | been selected by us for cultivation, be- 

 thc Long Pod or Windsor,) so situated,; lieving them the best adapted for the 



that the damp and frost can he excluded 

 An old hot-bed answers the purpose 

 effectually. They need not be planted 



climate, and quite sufficient of the kind. 

 They are the Early Long Pod and Broad 

 Windsor. Both succeed with the same 



therein, before the middle of spring, nor j treatment, but the first named, is the 

 transplanted till towards its close; a < more certain bearer of the two. In 

 little earlier or later, as the weather i England, where they are extensively 

 may make expedient ; if planted early, | cultivated, they do much better than in 

 they will at best remain stationary, and j this country, preferring its damp cool 

 may, perhaps, do worse. They should atmosphere, to our frequently dry and 

 be planted in hills in well cultivated ' hot one ; to counteract which, it is de- 

 ground, dressed either in the piece or sirable to plant so early in the spring, 



hills, with thoroughly rotted manure 

 from the barn-yard. The hills should 

 be raised three or four inches above the 



as the ground will admit of being 

 worked; in the latitude of Philadelphia, 

 (39= 57) the latter part of February, 



average level, and be three feet apart , or beginning of March, if possible; 

 each way, with a pole six or eight feet they then come into flower before, the 

 liigh, well secured in the ground, to weather becomes hot, otherwise the 

 each hill. Three plants in a hill are! blossoms drop, and set no fruit. 

 Bufhcient. As the vines shoot up, they i Plant them in drills, either single or 

 should be tied to the poles, till they get ' double, two inches apart in the drills, 

 hold, when they will support them- and cover one to two inches deep. If 

 selves. In trying them, observe to do in double drills, with alleys two and a 

 it in the direction in which they incline 1 half feet wide. If in single rows, two 



