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ney-beans, they are, as T observed before, almost 

 endless in number. I will, however, name a few : 

 the Dun, or Draft-coloured dwarf bean, is the earli- 

 est. The same ground will bear and ripen two 

 crops in one year, the last from the seed of the first 

 The Yellow ; the Black; the Speckled ; the Painted, 

 white and red : these are all dwarfs ; but there are 

 a great many others. Amongst runners, or pole- 

 beans, there are the Scarlet-blossom, the seed of 

 which is red and black and the seed-pod rough 

 There is a White bean precisely like the former, 

 except that the bean and blossom are white. The 

 Case-knife bean, which, in England, is called the 

 Dutch-runner : this is the best bean of all to eat 

 green. Then there is the Cranberry-bean of vari- 

 ous colours as to seed. The Lima-bean, which is 

 never eaten green (that is, the pod is never eaten,) 

 and which is sometimes called the butter-bean, has 

 a broad, flat and thin seed of a yellowish-white co- 

 lour. This bean must never be sown till the ground 

 is right warm. The other sorts will grow and bear 

 well in England ; but this sort will not. I raised 

 good and ripe Indian Corn at Botley ; but, I never 

 could bring a Lima-bean to perfection, though I put 

 it in the hottest spot I could find, and though cu- 

 cumbers produced very well in the natural ground 

 at a yard or two from it. For the raising of dwarf 

 beans on a large scale, see Paragraphs 163 and 164. 

 The pole-beans may be raised in the same way, 

 only with larger spaces (six feet perhaps) between 

 the rows, and without any poles at all. The seed 

 for sale is raised in this way even in England, 

 where the climate is so cold and wet compared to 

 this. The poling is a great plague and expense ; 

 and, if large quantities be raised, it may be dis- 

 pensed with : nay, it may be dispensed with in a 

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