44^ The Kitchen Garden. [061. 



The method is this : dig a bed ab^uv three or four feet 

 broad of good ear. h in a warln corn-r: the bed being 

 dug, draw the, depfh. of about an inch and a half, or 

 near two inches C/ie.'vfth equally o^ the furfac.e, to one 

 fide ; this done, fcatter in the beans about an inch afun- 

 der, and immediately cover ihem with the earth which 

 was drawn for thai purpDle off the bed ; or. otherwife you 

 may widi your hoe flatways draw broad drills acrofs the 

 bed, and fcatter the beans pretty thick in the drill, and 

 draw the earth equally over them ; n-^d thus if fevere 

 frolls fhould prevail before they come up, or in their in- 

 fant itate; -While remaining all rogerher ;i:n this bed 

 they can be readily protected from froft with g'laiTes^ mats, 

 or litter, till fitt6 tranfplant." ' ^~ -. r ■ . . . 



When-the beans are-come up an inch, or inch and 

 a half or two incaes high or thereabouts, they Jhould 

 then, in niild weather, be tranfplanted into the above- 

 mentioned borders, taking them carefully up out of the 

 feed-bed, with their full fpread of roots,' and as much 

 earth as will- hang about them j pull away the old beans 

 at the bottom, and trim the: end of the- perpendicular 

 root ; and then planted iii roWs at the fame.diilance and 

 in the manner before direfled, cblerving to clofe the 

 earth well about every plant ; they- will foon: take. root 

 and grow freely. 



One reafon for this pradice is, as moll gardeners now 

 allow, that beans which are trantplan'ed will come m 

 fooiier by a week or ten days, than thofe that are not; 

 though the feed of both are put into the ground the fame 

 day. - ■'-"-■■■ "> 



Another thing aHowed is, that when the beans are 

 ■thus firll fown in a fmall bed, and fevere frcus afterwards 

 fet in any time before the plants are ready to be .ranf- 

 planted ; in that cafe, the feed, or planrs, b-y being all 

 together within a fmall compafs, can be readily pra- 

 teded by placing a frame, or fomc other covering, over 

 them t and by that means be preferved;. when thofe in 

 the open ground are fcmetimes killed, or greatly da- 

 maged by the froft. ^ . ' 



Sonving Peas. 



Now fovy fome peas, for an early crap next May or 

 June: they may be fowed in the middle or latter end of 

 the month, arid the produce will come in at. an earjy 

 . _• feafon. 



