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195. BASIL is a very sweet annual pot-herb. 

 There are two sorts, the dwarf and the tall. It 

 should be sown in very fine earth, and, if conve- 

 nient, under a hand-glass. The bunches may be 

 dried for winter use. 



196. BEAN.- The only species of bean much 

 used in this country, is, that, which, in England, 

 is called Kidney -Bean, and in France, Haricot. 

 Of these I shall speak in the next article. The 

 Bean I here mean is, what is called by most per- 

 sons in America the horse-bean. In England 

 there are some sorts of this bean used for horses 

 and hogs ; but there are several sorts used as 

 human food. It is, at best, a coarse and not yery 

 "wholesome vegetable; yet some people like jt. It 

 is very much eaten by the country people of 

 England, with their bacon, along with which it 

 is boiled. There are several sorts of. these 

 garden-beans, the best of which is the large 

 flat seeded bean, called the Windsor- JBean. . The 

 Long Pod is the next best; and though there 

 are several others, these are enough to mention 

 here. The bean is difficult to raise here. It 

 does not like dry and hot weather ; and it likes 

 moist and stiff land. If attempted to be raised 

 in America, it should be sown in the fall by all 

 means (see Paragraph 159 ;) but,.still it is uSeless 

 to sow, unless, you guard against mice. If sown 

 in the South Border, where it would be shaded 

 and protected from the hot. sun, it might do pretty 

 well ; and the vegetable is convenient, iisit follows 

 immediately after the early peas are gone. Ten 

 rows of these beans across the South Border, 

 four feet apa-.-t, and the beans four inches apart, 

 will be enough for a family. 



