ANOTHER HARDY GARDEN BOOK 



appears under different names, but the small, 

 crisp, green-podded ones are infinitely the 

 best. 



Beans are so easy to produce, that gar- 

 deners are apt to raise a larger quantity of 

 them than of any other vegetable. A friend 

 who has a large garden and employs several 

 men, told me recently a story of his expe- 

 rience last year with beans and gardeners. 

 He had asked his head gardener in the 

 spring about mid- April if he had begun the 

 vegetable garden, and the man replied, "Not 

 yet, it is too cold and wet." To a similar 

 enquiry in mid-May the reply was, "It is 

 too warm and dry." As a result, little else 

 but the prolific bean was raised in that 

 garden during the Summer, all the other 

 vegetables being sent out from town; but 

 beans large and beans small, in great quan- 

 tities, were brought in daily by the gardener 

 until finally not a member of the household 

 would partake of them longer. 



Lima Beans are among the most tender 

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