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W. BEAN (KIDNEY.) Endless is th* 

 variety of sorts. Some are dwarfs, some climbers; 

 but, the mode of propagating and cultivating is 

 nearly the same in all, except that the dwarfs 

 require smaller distances than the climbers, and 

 that the latter are grown with poles, which the 

 former are not. In this fine country the seed is 

 so good, the soil and climate so favourable to the 

 plant, the use of the vegetable so general, the 

 propagation and cultivation so easy, and so well 

 understood, that little in detail need be said about 

 them. I prefer sowing the dwarfs in rows to 

 sowing them in bunches or clumps. It is a great 

 object to have them early, and, they may be had 

 much earlier than they usually are with a little 

 pains. It is useless to sow them while the ground 

 is cold; for they will not grow till it be warm ; but, 

 there are means to be used to get them forwarder 

 than the natural ground will produce them. If you 

 have & glazed frame^ or a hand-glass or two (sec 

 Paragraph 94,) use one or the other in this case ; 

 but, if not, dig a hole and put in it, well-shaken 

 together, a couple of wheel-barrows full of good 

 hot dung; and lay some good rich mould upon 

 it six inches thick. Then lay on this some of the 

 earliest son of dwarf-beans. Put them not more 

 than an inch apart, and cover them with two 

 inches of fine rich mould. Bend some rods over 

 the whole, and put the ends of the rods in the 

 ground; and every evening, cover this sort of 

 roof over with a bit of old carpet or sail-cloth. 

 In default of these, corn-stalks may do. Do thia 

 when the winter frost is just got out of the ground, 

 or soon after. The beans will be up in a week's 

 time ; and, in about a fortnight afterwards, the}- 



