SECT. XV. OF ESCULENTS. 575 



which is the beft, as to eaflinefs and quality. The 

 yellow and the black are, perhaps, as forward as any, 

 The early white is not long behind, and is of fnperior 

 flavour, but not fo hardy as the yellow and black, and 

 fome others. The white may therefore be the fecond 

 crop. The dwarf forts come in quicker than the run- 

 ners. For the principal crop, the Batterfea and Can- 

 terbury beans are mofiiy ufed by the market gardeners, 

 being good and prolific. 



Of the runners, or climbing fort, the common fcarlei 

 and the white Dutch, are generally preferred, and 

 when mixed together, their bloiToms make an agreeable 

 (hew, and bear a long-time, if the beans are cp.iihered 

 conuantly as they get fit for ufe. 



The dwarf Torts of this vegetable may be had moft 

 months in the year, by the united means of open cul- 

 ture, hot-beds, and hot-houfes. In _ cold ground they 

 are fometimes fown, clofe under a Jhuth wall, towards 

 the end of a dry March ; but April is fooB-e&erigh ; for 

 if they get above ground without rotting, (as the feed is 

 apt to do, when the ground is long wet) a little frbft Will 

 cut them off. It is a good way to low' again in abo'dt 

 a week, left the fir It mould fail to come up. 



The latter end of March, however, if fome are fown 

 in a warm border, in patches, and covered with hand- 

 glajjes, they will do very well. Or an early crop may 

 be produced by railing the beans, at this time, on a 

 gentle hot-bed, and planting them out, when two or three 

 inches high, under glaffes, in patches of four or five, 

 and near two feet afunder. If the beans are raifed in 

 fmall pots, three or four in each, they may be turned 

 out whole, with great advantage, as kidney beans do not 

 always bear tranfplanting well ; and they may be covered 

 on nights with hand-glades, garden pots, 8tC. 



When thefe forwarded beans are planted in rows 

 fingly, let it be under a warm wall, ami not (ifit can be 

 avoided) till the end of April, or beginning of May ; and 



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