May.] The Kitchen Garden. 209 



Kidney Beans, 



Now plant a full crop of kidney-beans, to fucceed thofe 

 planted in April. 



Any of the dwarf kinds of thefe beans may ftill be 

 planted i 'but the bell and moli profitable for this planta- 

 tion are the fpeckled dwarfs, Batterfea, and Canterbury 

 white dwarfs. 



Draw drills for them an inch d.zz^, and- thirty inches 

 afiinder; place the beans in the drills, about three inches 

 apart ; draw the earth evenly over them, and, when ail 

 are planted, let the furface be lightly raked fmooth. 



Plant alfo, where required, any of the running kinds 

 of kidney beans. 



Moil of thefe forts are exceeding profitable for the fer- 

 vice of a family, for they are furprifmg great bearers ; 

 but, in particular, the fcarlet-flovvering bean ; and there 

 is a variety of this, that difFerj from it only in colour, 

 which is white, and whcfe fiowers are alfo white; but is 

 not to be diftingoiifned from the fcarlet, neither in man- 

 ner of grov/th, nor mode of bearing ; and both the va- 

 rieties are very proper for this plantation : the large white. 

 Dutch running kinds are alfo very proper to plant now. 



Thefe, and all the running or climbing forts of kidney- 

 beans, mull be allowed more room to grow than the dwarf 

 kinds ; fo that the drills for thefe large forts mull be opened 

 at three feet fix inches diftance from one another, atleaft, 

 but four feet will not be too much, and about an inch and 

 a half deep. 



Place the beans in the drills three or four inches afander,' 

 and cover them equally with earth, about an inch and a^ 

 half deep. 



When the plants are come up, and begin to pufh their, 

 runners, then let fome tail Hicks, cr poles, be placed to 

 each row, for the plants to climb upon. The runners will 

 foon catch hold, and will twine theinfeves naturaliy round 

 the Hicks or poles, to the height of eight or tea feet, pro- 

 vided the poles or flicks be fo high ; or if any are planted' 

 in a row clofe againll a wall, dr any high fence or build- 

 ing, may fufpend ilrong packthread from above, fix inches 

 diftance, failened tight at both ends, the runners of the 

 beans will readily afcend round the firings. 



The advantage of planting thefe running kinds is. very- 

 great J 



