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season be very favourable, and the ground warm. As these 

 Beans are apt to get rotten by cold and damp weather, let 

 six or eight be planted half an inch deep round each pole, 

 and afterwards thinned, leaving three or four good plants 

 in a hill, which hills should be full four feet distance from 

 each other, every way. 



The soil for running Beans should be the same as for 

 Dwarfs, except the Lima, which require richer ground than 

 any of the other sorts. A shovelful of rich light compost, 

 mixed with the earth in each hill, would be beneficial. 



If any varieties are wanted before the ordinary seasons, 

 they may be planted in flower pots in April, and placed in 

 a greenhouse or garden frame, and being transplanted in 

 May, with the balls of earth entire, will come into bearing 

 ten or fourteen days earlier than those which, in the first 

 instance, are planted in the natural ground. 



It will require about a quart of Lima Beans to plant one 

 hundred hills. A quart of the smallest sized Pole Beans 

 will plant three hundred hills and upwards, or about two 

 hundred and fifty feet of row, and the largest runners will go 

 about as far as the Lima Beans. 



Lima Beans should be shelled while fresh, and boiled fa 

 plenty of water until tender, which generally takes from 

 fifteen to twenty minutes. Some cook the ripe Beans in 

 winter, in which case they should be soaked in soft water 

 for a few hours, and then put into the water cold, and boiled 

 until tender, with a little salt ; but salted meat being boiled 

 with them answers the same purpose, and makes them 

 sweeter and more wholesome. The mode of cooking the 

 other sorts* is the same as Kidney Dwarfs. 



