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more discouraging to an exhibitor, than to be just inferior to 

 the man who sweeps all, and this inferiority so trifling as 

 scarcely to merit notice. Large premiums and few of them, 

 if put forth at all, are very injudiciously offered. They only 

 tempt the best growers, and alarm the many, while a less 

 inducement as to amount would be quite as effectual in bring- 

 ing out the best, and numerous other cultivators. 



For the present, acknowledging our indebtedness in this 

 paper to the remarks of a most excellent practical man, we 

 take leave of the subject. More may be said at another time. 



Flushing, L. I., Sept. 20, 1845. 



Art. III. Guano on Beans. — Neiv Mode of Glazing. 

 By J. E. Teschemacher. 



Dear Sir : — If the followhig horticultural memoranda are 

 worthy of insertion in your Magazine, they are at your 

 service. 



String Beans. — The captain of a ship in the California 

 trade, who I believe hails from Duxbury or Beverly, brought 

 to [me about a quart of dull flesh-colored beans from that 

 coast, telling me that they were as much better than the com- 

 mon white bean, Yankee bean he termed it, as the Yankee 

 bean was better than nothing. 



I promised him I would try to cultivate it, of course the 

 idea uppermost in my mind; he replied that it was of no use, 

 they had tried it time and again, but it would never ripen 

 seed in this climate and that he had given them to me for cook- 

 ing ; but I was determined to have my own way, and planted 

 them. I plead guilty to " the soft impeachment" of putting 

 a little guano into the soil. They grew but very little the 

 whole summer, shewing scarcely any bloom until the middle 

 of August, and then very straggling and not setting their fruit, 

 so that I gave up all idea of getting any produce, and made 

 a memorandum against guano with these beans. From the 

 beginning of September, however, they began to wear a dif- 

 ferent appearance, fruit set rapidly, and I thought I would 

 try a dish cooked with the pod like string beans. The result 



