KID 



KID 



Crimson Runner. Highly esteemed for 

 stewing when ripe ; seeds red, flat, and 

 small. 



Flat Yellow Canada. The most dwarf 

 and one of the earliest skinless, anc 

 therefore either good when young, or 

 when full grown; seeds nearly round 

 pale yellow, very good when dried. A 

 good bearer. 



Polish Beans. A prolific sort, excellent 

 cither fresh-shelled or dried; seeds ra- 

 ther large, roundish, and sulphur-co- 

 loured. There is a sub-variety of it with 

 clear, bronze-coloured seeds, which also 

 appears to be good. A good bearer, and 

 early. Gard. Ckron. 



Soil and Situation. A very light, mel- 

 low, well-drained loam. For the early and 

 late crops, a sheltered border must al 

 ways be allotted, or in a single row about 

 a foot from a south fence, otherwise the 

 situation cannot be too open. 



Sowing commences with the year. They 

 may be sown towards the end of January 

 in pots, and placed upon the flue of the 

 hothouse, or in rows in the mould of a 

 hotbed, for production in March, to be 

 repeated once every three weeks in 

 similar situations in February and 

 .March, for supplying the table during 

 April j a small sowing may be made, if 

 line open weather, under a frame without 

 heat, for removal into a sheltered border 

 early in May. The chief requisite for 

 success in the hothouse is to have them 

 near the glass ; to keep them well wa- 

 tered; the air moist, and ventilated as 

 much as the season permits. 



During May, and thence until the first 

 week in August, sowings may be madn 

 once every three weeks. In September, 

 forcing recommences, at first merely un- 

 der frames without, bottom-heat ; October, 

 and thence to the close of the year, in 

 hotbeds, &c., as in January. Sowing, 

 when a removal is intended, should al- 

 ways be made in pots, the plants being 

 less retarded, as the roots are less injured, 

 than when the seed is inserted in patches 

 or rows in the earth of the bed. It is a 

 good practice, likewise, to repeat each 

 sowing in the frames without heat after 

 the lapse of a week, as the first will often 

 fail, when a second, although after so 

 short a lapse of time, will perfectly suc- 

 ceed. In every instance the seed is bu- 

 ried one and a half or two inches deep. 

 The rows of the main crops to be two feet 

 apart, the seed being inserted either in 



drills or by the dibble, four inches apart ; 

 the plants, however, to be thinned to 

 twice that distance. If a vacancy occurs, 

 it may always be filled by plants which, 

 have been carefully removed by the 

 trowel from where they stood too thick. 

 The seed insei'ted during the hottest pe- 

 riod of summer should be either soaked 

 in water for five or six hours, laid in 

 damp mould for a day or two, or the 

 drills be well watered previously to sowing. 

 The pods of both kinds are always to 

 be gathered while young ; by thus doing, 

 and care being had not to injure the 

 stems in detaching them, the plants are 

 rendered prolific and long lived. 



Forcing. The hotbed must be of mo- 

 derate size, and covered with earth nine 

 inches thick. When the heat has become 

 regular, the, seed may be inserted in 

 drills a foot apart, and the plants allowed 

 to stand sis. inches asunder in the rows. 

 Air must be admitted as freely as to the 

 melon. The same precautions are like- 

 wise necessary as to keeping up the tem- 

 perature, taking the chill off the water, 

 &c., as for that plant. When the seed 

 begins to sprout, the mould should be 

 kept regularly moistened; and when 

 grown up, water may be given mode- 

 rately three times a week. The tempe- 

 rature should never be less than 60, nor 

 higher than 75. 



Those sown under frames in March for 

 transplanting into a border, when two or 

 three inches in height, must, in a like 

 manner, be hardened gradually for the 

 exposure, by the plentiful admission of 

 air, and the total removal of the glasses 

 during fine days. If any are raised in 

 pots in the hothouse, they must be pre- 

 pared similarly for the removal, by set- 

 ting them outside in fine days, and there 

 watering them with cold water. 



If the season is too ungenial to re- 

 move them even to a warm border, the 

 plants are often inserted in patches, to 

 lave the protection of frames or hand- 

 ights at night, or as the weather demands. 



Runners. As these are more tender, 

 and the seed is more apt to decay, than 

 hose of the dwarfs, no open-ground crop 

 must be inserted before early in May, to 

 be continued at intervals of four weeks 

 hrough June and July, which will insure 

 a supply from the middle of this last 

 month until October. 



They are so prolific and such perma- 

 nent bearers, that three open -ground 



