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BEANS. (Kidney Dwarf.) 

 HARICOT. Phascolus vulgaris^ etc. 



TARIETIES. 



Early Mohawk. 



Early Valentine. 



Early Yellow Six Week?. 



Early Dun-Colored, or Quaker. 



Early China Dwarf. 



Quails' Head. 



Early Rob Roy. 



Early Black Dwarf. 



Large White Kidney Dwarf. 



White Cranberry Dwarf 



Red Cranberry Dwarf. 



Yellow Cranberry Do. 



vv arrington, or Marrow. 



Refugee, or Thou and to One. 



Marble ^wi-s Bean. 



Royal Dwarf Kidney, or Frenah. 



These varieties of Beans being natives of India, South 

 America, and other warm climates, will not endure the least 

 cold, it is therefore always hazardous to plant them in the 

 open ground until settled warm weather. The earliest 

 varieties if planted towards the end of April, or the first week 

 in May, will come to perfection in from six to eight weeks 

 after planting. Some of the later varieties will keep longer 

 in bearing, and are esteemed by some on that account. 

 These, with some of the early varieties, may be planted' 

 In the months of May and June, and if a regular succession? 

 of young Beans be required throughout the summer, some 

 of the varieties should be planted every two weeks, from 

 the last week in April until the beginning of August. 



These Beans require a light rich soil, in which they should 

 be planted in hills, three or four in a hill, or drills about two 

 inches deep, and the Beans two or three inches from each 

 other; the drills may be fn>m two to three feet apart. The 

 Refugees are best planted in hills. As the Beans progress in 

 growth, let them be carefully hoed, drawing some earth up to 

 their stems at the same time, which will cause them to be 

 soon fit for the table. 



Many gardeners, anxious to have Beans early, are apt to 

 begin planting too soon in the season, and very frequently 

 lose their first crops. It should be recollected, that thes e 

 Beans are next to Cucumbers and Melons for tenderness^ 

 and will always grow quicker and yield better, if the planting 

 be delayed until settled warm weather. The Early Mohawk 



