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five or six beans in each, covered about two inches deep. 

 If all the seeds grow, the plants may be thinned to three. 

 If they fail, replanting will of course be required. Although 

 they will, in rich ground and in a good season, grow to the 

 length of twenty feet, the poles usually employed for their 

 support are not over ten or twelve feet in height, it being 

 necessary that two feet shall be under ground. 



The Carolina Sewee or Saba Bean, though not so large, 

 has all the habits of the Lima, but is more hardy and a 

 more abundant producer, although inferior in richness and 

 buttery character. 



A variety of Pole Beans, called the Dutch Case-Knife, 

 is used either with or without the pod or hull, and is also 

 well adapted for winter use. It has a fine flavor, produces 

 well, and comes earlier for the table than either the Lima 

 or Carolina varieties. 



The kind called Scarlet Runners, from their red blos- 

 soms, require to be planted rather earlier than the Lima, 

 and need the same kind of support. 



What are known in England as the Windsor and Early 

 Long Pod Beans, are not so well adapted to the American 

 climate as the varieties just referred to. They may be 

 planted in cool situations, in drills a foot and a half asun- 

 der, and two inches apart in the row. 



* Esculent Roots. 



THE POTATO (Solanum tuberosum). This well-known 

 plant is a native of the elevated regions of equatorial 

 America. It was introduced into Europe about the mid- 

 dle of the sixteenth century, but remained little known or 

 regarded till within the last hundred years : and is now so 

 generally cultivated as to have effected almost an economi- 

 cal revolution in this country. Most of the original British 



