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bed of light earth, under a warm aspect, with the 

 view of protecting them from the severe frost, and 

 of transplanting them to warm borders in the 

 spring. The width of a garden-frame will be 

 found sufficient ground for planting the beans. If 

 there is a frame to spare, place it over them ; and 

 in frosty weather the lights can be put on and 

 otherwise protected with garden mats and dry 

 litter : on no account omit giving a supply of fresh 

 air in mild weather, or the plants will be drawn up 

 weakly, and spoiled. They remain in the bed till 

 February or March, when, as soon as the weather 

 admits, transplant them into a warm south border, 

 in rows two feet apart, or by the warm side of the 

 alleys between the asparagus beds, which, with 

 care, will not interfere with the work necessary to 

 be done to them in the spring. In removing the 

 bean plants from the seed-bed, ease them out with 

 all their roots, and with as much mould as will 

 adhere to them. Their after-culture only requires 

 a little earthing up, and their tops to be pinched off 

 when in bloom. 



By the above mode of treatment the fruiting of 

 the beans will be accelerated at least ten days or a 

 fortnight before any that are planted in the open 

 ground, let the weather be ever so favourable; 

 besides, in severe weather, there will be a cer- 

 tainty of a crop. 



For a succession, any of the early kinds' may be 

 planted at the end of November and in December. A 

 new early variety of the long-pod, raised by Messrs. 

 Field and Child, of Thames Street, London, is a 

 most excellent one for the purpose. The Mazagan ' 



