26 THE AMERICAN GARDENER. 



ficient in a g-arden. It is piopagfated from seed, or from 

 offsets. When once planted, the only care required is 

 to see that it does not extend itself too far. 



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 convenient, under a hand-glass. The 

 bunches may be dried for winter use. 



BKAN. 



The bean I here mean is, what is called by most per- 

 sons in America, the horse-bean. It is, at best, a coarse 

 and not very wholsesome vegetable. There are seve- 

 ral .*Jorts of these garden-beans, the best of which is the 

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

 pod is the next best ; and, though there are several 

 others, these are enough to merUion here. 



The bean is difficult to raise. It does not like dry 

 and hot weather ; and it likes moist and stiff land. If 

 attempted to be raised, it should be sown in the fall by 

 all means ; but, still it is useless to sow, unless you 

 guaid against mice. 



Ten rows of these beans across the south border, four 

 feet apart, and the beans four inches apart, will be 

 enough for a family. 



BEAN (kidney). 



Endless is the variety of sorts. Sonie are dwarfs, 

 some climbers; but the mode of propagating and culti- 

 vating 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. 

 I prefer sowing the dwarfs in rows to sowing them in 

 bunches or cluin[)s. If you have a glazed fame, or a 

 hand glass or two, use one or the other in this case ; but 

 if not. dig a hole and put in it, well shaken together, a 



