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They should be grown in drills three and a half feet apart, the 

 beans being put about six inches apart in the drill. The ear- 

 liest market varieties are the Six Weeks and Early Mohawk. 

 These are followed by the White, Black, and Golden Wax, which 

 are succeeded b}- the Yellow Cranberry and Dwarf Horticultural. 

 All these are planted in this locality about the first week in May. 



The Pole varieties are less hard}' than the bush sorts, and are 

 planted about two weeks later ; in rows three and a half feet apart 

 and hills two feet apart in the row. The principal varieties are 

 the Red Cranberry, Pole Horticultural, Sieva or Small Lima, and 

 Large White Lima. 



Although there are some other sorts of garden beans, these are 

 the leading ones grown. 



Beets come next in order. The earliest are the Egj'ptian, 

 Eclipse, and Bastian. B}" some the Egyptian is called the earli- 

 est, but others say the Bastian is just as early, and others the 

 Eclipse. The Egyptian is a very earl}- beet, and is very good 

 when small ; but when full grown it is wood}-, and of very poor 

 quality. The Bastian is, I think, just as early ; it is not a true 

 blood beet, but is sweet and of very good quality at all times of 

 the year. The I^clipse is quite new, having been in the market 

 only four or five years; it is a blood beet, very fine grained, of 

 good shape and good at all seasons of the year ; and it is perhaps the 

 most popular of all beets at the present time. The next we shall 

 name is the Dewing ; this is the kind most extensively grown, and 

 is in my judgment the best of all for summer and winter, being a 

 true blood beet and not growing too large for table use. It is 

 the kind most used for greens, and is in favor for the family 

 kitchen garden. There are several kinds grown for feeding cattle, 

 such as the Long Red, Red Globe, Yellow Globe, and French 

 Sugar. 



Beets are grown, especially the earlier varieties, as a first crop, 

 and are planted by machine in rows twelve inches apart ; rows be- 

 ing left out at proper intervals for celery, as is done on ridges for 

 horse-radish. Of the three earliest sorts above mentioned, two crops 

 can be grown on the same land each year ; the first being sown 

 about the fifteenth of April and a second about the fifteenth of July. 

 Beets require g(X)(l land, well manured ; and if desired early must 

 be left quite thin in the row. The late ones or those of the second 

 crop can be grown clo.ser together; this applies also to the kinds 

 used for cattle, and many tons of these can be raised on an acre. 



