KITCHEN-GARDEN PLANTS. CHAP, 



dwarf beans for a crop, is, the first of May : to have a 

 constant supply, you should sow on the first of every 

 month, August inclusive. The climbing beans should be 

 sowed about the 10th of May. The culture of beans is a 

 very easy matter. For the dwarf sorts, you make drills 

 two feet apart and two inches deep, lay the beans along 

 at three inches asunder, lay the earth over them and 

 tread it down hard. As soon as they are up, which is 

 very quickly, draw the earth from both sides (but not 

 when it is wet) close up to the stems, quite as high as 

 the bottom of the stem of the seed leaf, and then give all 

 the ground a good deep hoeing. The dwarf beans want 

 nothing- more than this : they push on at a great rate : 

 they begin to show their blossoms in ten days, and if the 

 frosts keep away, you have beans in a very short time. 

 Even while they are producing, you can, if you please, 

 dig along the centre of the intervals, and there have 

 another crop of beans j or, if you like better, savoys, 

 broccoli, or other things for the autumn or the winter. 

 The beans are soon taken off, and your ground is ready 

 for any succeeding crop. As to the climbers, they are 

 sowed and cultivated in the same manner ; and they will, 

 if you please, creep about upon the ground ; but that is 

 not the best way. They should be planted in a double 

 row, same depth as the dwarf beans, and the two rows 

 about six inches apart. Then there should be an inter- 

 val between each two double rows, of five or six feet ; 

 they should be earthed up in the same manner as de- 

 scribed for the dwarf beans, and, as soon as earthed up, 

 the poles should be put to them. The poles ought to be 

 about eight feet long, and there ought to be two rows of 

 poles to every double row of beans, not placed upright, 



