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The poles should be eight or ten feet long, and may be fixed 

 in the ground before the Beans are planted. 



The varieties of Lima Beans should not be planted in the 

 open groumd until the second week in May, unless the sea- 

 son be very favourable, and the ground warm. As these 

 Beans are apt to get rotten by cold and damp weather, let 

 six or eight be planted half an inch deep round each pole, 

 and afterward thinned, leaving three or four good plants in 

 a hill, which hills should be fiill four feet distant from each 

 other every way. 



The soil for Running Beans should be the same as for 

 Dwarfs, except the Lima, which require richer ground than 

 any of the other sorts. A shovelful of rich light compost, 

 mixed with the earth in each hill, would be beneficial. 



If any varieties are wanted before the ordinary seasons, 

 they may be planted in flower-pots, in April, and placed in 

 a greenhouse or garden frame, and being transplanted in 

 May, wdth the balls of earth entire, will come into bearing ten 

 or fourteen days earlier than those which, in the first instance, 

 are planted in the open ground. 



It wnll require about a quart of Lima Beans to plant one 

 hundred hills. A quart of the smallest-sized Pole Beans will 

 plant three hundred hills and upward, or about two hundred 

 and fifty feet of row, and the largest runners will go about 

 as far as the Lima Beans. 



Lima Beans should be shelled while fresh, and boiled in 

 plenty of water until tender, which generally takes from fif- 

 teen to twenty minutes. The mode of cooking and prepar- 

 ing the other sorts, is the same as for Kidney Dwarfs 



