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best of culture; Aim to have the pods set before the 

 droughts of midsummer come. Good trellises for Beans 

 are made by wool twine stretched between two horizontal 

 wires, one of which is drawn a foot above the ground and 

 the other 6 or 7 ft. high. 



Bean plants are not troubled by insects to any extent, 

 but they are sometimes attacked by blight. When this oc- 

 curs, do not plant the same ground to Beans again for 

 a year or two. 



Bedding. This term is used to designate the 

 massing of plants in the open ground for the purpose of 

 making a bold display of color. This color may be obtained 

 with flowers or with strong effects of foliage. Bedding is 

 ordinarily a temporary species of planting; that is, the bed 

 is filled anew each year. However, the term may be used 

 to designate a permanent plantation of plants which are 

 heavily massed so as to give one continuous or emphatic 

 display of form or color. Some of the best permanent bed- 

 ding masses are made of the various hardy ornamental 

 grasses, as eulalias, arundo, and the like. 



Some bedding is very temporary in its effect. Especially 

 is this true of spring Bedding, in which the plants used are 

 tulips, hyacinths, crocuses or other early-flowering bulbous 

 plants. In this case, the ground is usually occupied later in 

 the season by other plants. These later plants are usually 

 annuals, the seeds of which are sown amongst the bulbs as 

 soon as the season is far enough advanced ; or the annuals 

 may be started in boxes and the plants transplanted amongst 

 the bulbs as soon as the weather is fit. Many of the low- 

 growing and compact, continuous- flowering annuals are ex- 

 cellent for summer Bedding effects. Some of the best plants 

 for this purpose are mentioned in the following list : 



Adonis sestivalis. Bartonia aurea. 



Adonis autumnalis. Cacalia. 



Ageratum Mexicanum. Calendula officinalis, in sev- 



AgeratumMexicanum, dwarf. eral forms. 



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