32 BEANS. 



The best mode of planting is in drills, drawn two inches 

 deep, in which the seed beans may be dropped two or three 

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

 from two to three feet assunder. 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. 

 Tobacco water, or salt water, will sometimes destroy them ; 

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

 and to 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 boiling, 

 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.. 



