40 BEANS. 



inches apart, according to their size, and the drills may be 

 from two to three feet asunder. A strong clayey soil is the 

 most suitable ; but they often do well in moderately light 

 ground, provided it be well trodden, or rolled, after the 

 Beans are planted. 



As soon as the Beans are three or four inches high, they 

 will need a careful hoeing ; and .if some earth be drawn up 

 to their stems, three or four times in the course of their 

 growth, it will greatly refresh and strengthen them. 



When they arrive at full bloom, and the lower pods begin 

 to set, the tops may be broken off. If this be done at the 

 proper time, it will promote the swelling of the pods, as 

 well as their early maturity ; for having no advancing tops 

 to nourish, the whole effort of the root will go to the support 

 of the fruit. 



Broad Beans are particularly subject to green bugs. To- 

 bacco water, or salt water, will sometimes destroy them , 

 but the most certain way is to watch their first appearance, 

 and pick off that part on which they first settle, and burn it ; 

 or if such plants be cut down close to the ground, they will 

 produce fresh shoots, which may bear a good crop. 



One quart of 'seed Beans will be required for every sixty 

 feet of row, allowing the smallest sorts to be planted about 

 two inches apart, and the largest four inches. 



The beans should be gathered young, and shelled while 

 fresh. After having been washed, let them be boiled in 

 plenty of water with a little salt and a bunch of green parsley. 

 They take from thirty to forty minutes to boil, according to 

 age, and may be served up with melted butter, gravy, &c. ; 

 but they are very good when cooked and eaten with fat pork, 

 or good old-fashioned Hampshire bacon 



