3o6 EXPERIMENTS ON Part III. 



and two feet and an half wide, which rendered the horfe-hoeing 

 very difficult in many places, and quite impradlicable in others. 

 This obliged him to contrive other methods of ftirring the ground. 

 The peas tlourifhed extremely, and produced more than the very 

 bell fields thereabouts. The barley, tho' fown too thin, yielded 

 likewife more than that of any other field. 



In December 1755, M. Eyma planted the common fort of 

 garden-beans, in a middling foil, not dunged, but extremely well 

 plowed a foot deep. The row"S were two feet afunder, and the 

 plants a foot diflant from each other. Thefe beans, which every 

 one thought much too thin fown, being afiifted by frequent hoeings,, 

 yielded a greater crop than any in the common way. M. Eyma, 

 finding his beans begin to ripen, gave the alleys a good plowing^ 

 and on the twenty-third of June, fowed in each of them a row of 

 red kidney-beans, which came up very well. A fortnight after, he- 

 plucked up the garden-beans, and gave the earth they grew on a 

 flight hoeing. The kidney beans proved the fineft he ever faw,.. 

 He purpofes, as foon as they are off the ground, to replant it 

 with garden-beans, and he hopes with better fuccefs than be- 

 fore. 



In 1755, M. dcVilliers fowed, peas in aftrong heavy foil, in 

 which no one had ever ventured to low any in the common huftan- 

 dry. They grew as high as if the ground had been ever fo fit for 

 them, and yielded half as much again as any fown in the common 

 v/ay, befides the faving in the feed, which, in peas, is about one 

 half. They were fown in double rows; and the alleys, which were 

 tv/o feet, and two feet and an half wide,, were hoed with the fingle 

 cultivator. 



With regard to- the diftance at which garden-beans fhould be 

 planted, Mr. Miller lays down, as a general rule, that the larger, 

 beans fhould be planted at a greater diftance than the fmall ones, 

 and thatthofe which are firil planted fhould be put ciofeft together, 

 to allow for fome mifcarrying. He therefore advifes, where a fingle 

 row is planted, and that early, to put the beans two inches afunder,. 

 and to allow thofe of the third and fourth planting three inches ; 

 and when they are planted in row-s arcrofs a. bank, " the rows,, fays 

 " he, fhould be tv/o feet and an half afunder : but the windfor-beans 

 *' fhould have a foot more fpace between the rows, and the beans' 

 ** in the rows fliould be planted five or fix inches afunder. This 

 " diftance, continues he, may, by fome perfons, be thought too- 



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