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tion by insects that are in the ground attacking both the bean 

 and the germinating plant. Ten days or a fortnight after 

 being planted, the beans germinate and appear above the 

 ground. 



Planting with young plants from the nursery is preferable. 

 The nursery must be in a cool and shady part of a field 

 and laid out in beds (nursery beds) ; the plants are reared from 

 beans planted at intervals of 25 to 30 cM. This distance 

 must be observed in order not to injure the tender plants when 

 removing them. The soil of these beds must be previously 

 well turned up and made as loose as possible. Within six or 

 seven weeks the young trees are formed. Now they are dug 

 up with a good clod of earth, and planted in the plantation in 

 holes made beforehand, where they are left to grow. The clod 

 around the root must be at least 25 to 30 cM. in circumference. 



A prime recommendation in this work is care. If the 

 taproot protrudes a little beyond the clod, you may cut it off 

 with a sharp knife; if, however, it projects too far, then you 

 had better make a deeper hole with a pointed stick so as to allow 

 the taproot to go in as in a sheath. But take especial care to 

 stick the taproot straight and upright into the ground, not 

 to bend it crooked. The safest way, however, in digging 

 up the young plants, is to leave so much earth about the 

 roots that they remain quite covered and invisible, while further 

 the opening must be well filled up again to prevent the rain- 

 water from filling the hole, and thus killing the tender plant 

 that can bear little moisture. 



Young plants can also be reared in small baskets, which in 



