V. BEAN. 



Mazagan, which comes earlier than the rest, and which, 

 on that account, is justly esteemed by those who like 

 this sort of vegetable, which, I must confess, I do not. 

 All this tribe of beans thrive best in moist and stiffish 

 ground ; but, if we desire to have them early, we must 

 sow them early j and, near a wall, facing to the south, 

 they may be sowed in November and even in October 5 

 and, if kept earthed up pretty nearly to their tops, and 

 in very sharp weather, covered from the frost, they will 

 stand the winter pretty well ; and will be a little earlier 

 than those which are sowed in the latter end of February 

 or beginning of March. Another way to have these 

 early beans, is, to sow a small patch, and to let them 

 come up within an inch of one another. Standing thus 

 upon a small piece of ground, they are easily protected 

 in sharp weather j and are ready to be removed, by 

 transplanting in the first mild weather in March j but 

 even then they should go into the warmest part of the 

 garden. Another sowing, even of tiiese, should take 

 place in the latter end of February, or very early in 

 March, which is the time also for sowing the Windsor 

 bean, the long-pod, and all the other varieties. Of the 

 Windsor bean and the long-pod another sowing should 

 take place in April, and in every month until July 5 that 

 is to say, if the family like them. The sowings ought to 

 be of small extent, however, for the crop is large, and 

 the plant, when it has shed its blossom, is no great 

 beauty, though exceeding almost all others in the sweet- 

 ness of its flower. Slice are great enemies of beans, or, 

 more properly speaking, they love them too much, as tlie 

 cannibal said of his fellow-creatures. This love, how- 

 ever, sometimes proves extremely inconvenient to the 



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