The Gardener's New Director. 1S7 



BALM OF G I LEAD. 



BALM of Gileaci is propagated by fowing its feeds 

 in pots upon an hot-bed in Munb,and in June the 

 plants mud be tranfplanted into as good and rich a foil 

 as what you have in the pots, or you may tranfplant 

 them from their feed-pots into others, putting at mod 

 but two plants into a pot, and fetting the pots in the 

 green-houfe, or under a hot-bed trame, cutting ihem 

 down ; and the May following they may be tranf- 

 planted out for good, but on a foil equally good with 

 that directed above ; when they are in bloom, cut down 

 their ftalks, and give them a drelTing. This was my 

 pra6lice with this odoriferous herb, by which means I 

 always had a fucceirion. 



BEANS. 



THE Mazagan, and the early J.ijhon, are the car- 

 lieft kinds; but 1 prefer the ]\la7.agan Bean, as 

 it is a very great bearer, and has a tine talle. It is 

 a native of a Portuguefe fettlement upon the coall of 

 Africay and, in many winters and fpilngs, comes firft; 

 it is beft to have them annually from I.ijlon, for they 

 degenerate, if fown from feeds raif<-d in England. They 

 may be fown in QBober and N 0-. ember \ and when they 

 appear above ground, cover them wiih earth, to pre- 

 ferve them from the troft ; earihing them as they ad- 

 vance, until the froft i» over; wi.en they are to be faf- 

 tened to the wall, with reed, anil lills oi cloth ; tiiis 

 haftens them on, and prevents their wind- waving or 

 breakinti;; top them when in bloffom, and they will 

 come in very early. — There is another method to have 

 thofe Beans early : Lay a pound of them under ilit earth 

 near a well cxpofed wall; cover them with beli-glanes ; 

 in three weeks take them up and yon will perceive them 

 fpringing, which when you obfervc, plant them under 

 a fouth-afpeclcd v/all, allowing ihcir buds to be equal 



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