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couple of wheelbarrows fuilofa^ood hotdun^; and lay 

 sonic i^ood ricli mould upon it six inches thick. Then 

 lay on this some of ihe earliest sort of dwarf beans. 

 Put them not more than an inch apart, and cover them 

 \viih two inches of fine rich mould. Bend some rods 

 over the wliole, and put the ends of the rods in the 

 fjround ; 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 this 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 fort- 

 night afterwards, they will be fit to remove. The 

 place for them is under a wall, a paling, or a hedge, 

 facing the South. Prepare the ground well and make 

 it ricli. Take a spade and carry away a part of the 

 beans at a time, and plant them at six inches asunder 

 with -as much earth about the roots as you can. Plant 

 them a little deeper than they stood in the bed. They 

 are very juicy, and may have a little water given them 

 as soon as planted. Shade them the first day, if the 

 weather be warm and the sun out; and cover them 

 evry night till all frosts be over. This is easily done, 

 if against any sort offence, by putting boards, one edge 

 upon the ground and tlie other leaning against the 

 fence ; but if you have no fence, and have to plant in 

 the open ground, it will be best to plant in clumps, and 

 flower-pots put over the clumps will do for a covering. 



M to the main crop, it is by no n^ans advisable to 

 sow very early. If you do, the seed lies long in the 

 ground, which is always injurious to the plant. The 

 plants come up feebly. The cold weather that occa- 

 sionally comes, makes them look yellow ; and they thea 

 never produce a fine crop. 



Of the various sorts of pole-beans, one sowing is 

 enough ; for, if you gather as the beans become fit for 

 use, they continue bearing all through the sunmier, es- 

 pecially the Lima-bean, which delights in heat, and for 

 which no weather can be too dry ; and which should 

 never be sown till the ground be right warm. The 



