SECT. XV* ESCULENTS. 



In severe weather, a light covering of peas haulm, 

 or any straw, may be lain over winter beans to pro- 

 tect them, but must be taken off as soon as the 

 weather alters ; for too much covering of any thing 

 is as likely to destroy (eventually) as being wholly 

 exposed. 



Though the mazagan is mostly the bean put in to 

 stand the winter, some gardeners sow other sorts for 

 the purpose, (even Windsors) which may succeed ; 

 but they certainly will not come in so early by near 

 a fortnight, and must have a dry sheltered situation. 

 The larger beans must be sown a little deeper, and 

 two or three inches farther asunder than the maza-> 

 gan, allowing a foot more between the rows, espe-f 

 cially if double rows (which are best) be set. 



If early crops of beans fail, through severity of 

 the winter, be sure to take the first opportunity of 

 open weather in the new year, to sow some of the 

 early sorts ; and if they be covered over with some 

 straw, they will come up the sooner; but remove 

 the covering as soon as the beans appear, if not 

 frosty at the time. Or if a hole be dug near a south 

 wall for two or three barrows full of hot dung, co- 

 vered with six inches of mould, beans may be set 

 very near one another, for planting out ; cover the 

 work with straw as before, and thus time will be 

 gained, especially if the beans be soaked a day and 

 night in a warm room. 



Succession crops of beans are to be sown every 

 three weeks, or a month, from November to July ; 

 preferring the larger sorts in February ', and so on 

 to June, when the smaller (or early) kinds will be 

 the properest. 



BEET, there are four kinds of, red, green, yellow, 

 and white, which are used several ways, as pot and 

 sallad herbs. The large leaves of the white and 

 yellow are sometimes blanched, when full grown, for 



