French Beans. Runner Beans. 159 



seed is sown, with a mulch of short manure along each side of 

 the rows as soon as the plants are growing freely. Fertilizers 

 calculated to give a profitable return are the following, applied 

 before sowing : Superphosphate 1 oz., sulphate of potash i oz., 

 per yard run of row. When growth does not appear sufficiently 

 vigorous nitrate of soda or sulphate of ammonia, i oz. to the 

 yard, watered in, will speedily improve matters. 



Varieties : For the earliest crop, Sutton's Superlative ; for 

 succession and main-crop, Canadian Wonder; for late crop, 

 Negro. 



BEANS (RUNNER). 



Phaseolus multiflorus. 



RUNNER Beans are easily grown, prolific, and popular. 

 They always meet with a ready sale when young and 

 tender, and when well grown are a profitable crop, as there is 

 no great expense in their production. 



The Scarlet Runner will do well in any good garden soil, 

 though a rather light loam suits it best. Clay soils are the 

 least suitable, though good crops may be taken from well- 

 drained clay soils providing they have a thorough winter 

 preparation, accompanied by liming. 



Runner Beans are less hardy than dwarfs, and it does not 

 pay to sow earlier than the first week of May in the southern 

 counties, and the last week in the north. In many small 

 gardens they are used to cover up bare unsightly places by 

 being taken over roughly contrived screens or archways, and 

 so serve the double purpose of converting ugliness to beauty 

 whilst at the same time yielding a profitable crop ; or they may 

 be taken up three poles 6ft. to 8ft. long, set in a triangle 4ft. 

 apart and tied together at the top, three or four beans being 

 planted at the foot of each. 



When grown in rows on sticks or poles make two drills Sin. 

 deep and 9in. apart, and repeat with two more drills 3ft. away, 

 which gives two double rows with 3ft. space between. Sow the 

 seed 4|in. apart in each drill, and when the plants are up thin 

 out to 9in. apart, so that they fall in the double row thus . ' . * . 



