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vated. The firft is an early kind that does not grow to any great height, feldom 

 more than about two feet. The ftem is (lender, but moftly well bcfet with pods, 

 which contain beans of rather a fmall fize. This fort of bean, from its not grow 

 ing tall, and having but a {lender ftem, may probably be grown with profit on the 

 lefs ftrong and heavy forts of ground. It has alfo the property of becoming ripe 

 more early than any of the other garden beans. The Mumford bean is alfo pro 

 per on the fame fort of land. But the long-pod is of a much taller growth, and 

 confiderably more ftrength of flem ; it confequently requires greater depth and 

 ftrength of foil for its advantageous culture. It is a fort of bean that affords a 

 large produce where the land is fuitable to its growth. The Windfor bean is of 

 a ftill larger kind than the long-pod, the feed approaching to fomewhat the fquarc 

 form. It grows ftrong and tall like the long-pod kind, but feldom yields fo large 

 a produce. Thefe large kind of beans are rarely, however, cultivated in the field, 

 except in the vicinity of large towns, where they can be fold in the pods green. 



This is a fort of crop that may be cultivated with fuccefs, as has been feen, ort 

 almoft any of the ftronger kinds ofmoift foils. It thrives equally well in the 

 ftiff clayey lands, and thofe of the ftrong loamy kinds. The foil of the lands, 

 where bean crops fucceed to the greateft advantage, is generally of a good depth ; 

 as in fuch the roots are enabled to get down fo as to be capable of fuppl/ing 

 themfelves with a fuitable proportion of nourifliment, which cannot be the cafe 

 &quot;Where the ground has a thin foil. 



Bean crops are grown after wheat and oats, as well as on fuch lands as have 

 been newly broken up from the ftate of ley. And alfo after clover and other 

 feeds. On the leys they may be cultivated with great propriety and advantage 

 where danger is apprehended of corn crops being injured by the attacks of the 

 grub or other infects. And, befides their utility in this way, they may be of 

 great benefit in cafes where the fward is tough, by breaking down and reducing 

 the parts of the foil, as well as in promoting the putrefaction and decay of the 

 turfy or grafly material, and the deftruction of weeds, by the fhade and fmothering 

 clofenefs which they produce on the furface of the ground. Though this fort 

 of crop is capable of being cultivated after moft forts of vegetable productions, 

 it feems probable, from its poffeffing a tap root, and ftriktng deeply into the earth, 

 that it may be grown to the moft benefit in fucceflion to fuch forts of plants as 

 are of the fibrous-rooted kinds. 



The common method of preparing the foil for the reception of bean crops is 

 merely by giving one ploughing at the period when the feed is put into the 

 ground in the fpring months. But it is a much better practice to plough the 



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