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protect them awhile at firft, on cold nights, with mat- 

 ting, or otherwife. 



As to the hot-bed culture of kidney beans, of any are 

 attempted to be brought to fruit on heat, let them be 

 raifed, towards the end of February, upon one gentle 

 bed, (or in pots, at the back of a cucumber frame) and 

 planted out in another, in rows fifteen inches a-part, 

 and at four inches in the rows ; for nearer they will 

 not fruit well. The bed may be about two and a halt 

 feet thick, and mull have on it feven or eight inches of 

 mould, and the plants treated with as much air as can 

 fafely be given them. Line the bed before the heat is 

 quite gone, to preferve and forward them. The fort 

 moil ufed for forcing in hot-houfes is a reddilh fpeckled 

 one; but the early white is fitteft for forcing in hot-beds, 

 as of lower growth : The early yelhiX) and black may 

 do. Support them by ties to little fticks.\ 



The common culture of the dwarf bean, in the proper 

 feafon, and open ground, is to fow them an inch or an 

 inch and a half deep, three afunder, and two feet, or a 

 little more, to a yard between the rows, according to 

 the fize of the feed, for fome forts require more room 

 than others. Let them be earthed up as they proceed 

 in growth ; and to have a fuccejfion, fow every three 

 weeks ; remembering that a crop produces more, and 

 lafts longer, the oftencr the beans are gathered : It is 

 proper, therefore, to do it conilantly whillt young and 

 good, even if not wanted. 



The laji crop fhould be under a warm wall, and may 

 be fown as late as the middle, or end of July; and if 

 very dry weather, let the beans for. this, and the Juris 

 crop, be foaked about twelve hours in milk and water, 

 and the drills watered, in order to forward their germ - 

 nation, and bring them more certainly and regularly rip. 

 It is a good way to prepare the feed for high fummer, 

 by laying it in damp mould till it begins to chit, and 

 then planting it in watered drills. In a courfe of dry 



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