90 THE CULINARY GARDEN. [JUNE. 



Of sowing and earthing up French Beans. 



More French beans, for successional crops, may 

 again be planted or be sown. Choose good, lightish 

 soil, and an open situation ; and sow or plant, as 

 directed in April. Any of the kinds will now suc- 

 ceed. 



Let the advancing crops be cleared from weeds, 

 and have a little earth drawn to their stems, which 

 will strengthen them, and encourage their growth. 

 .The scarlet and white Dutch runners must be 

 sticked, or must otherwise be supported, in the 

 manner of peas, by stakes and lines of pack-thread 

 or spun-yarn, as noticed of peas in April. 



Of planting and sowing German Greens. 

 German Greens may be planted out any time in 

 the month, for a full crop. Plant in good land, and 

 in a free situation, at eighteen or twenty inches 

 square : and water frequently till they have taken 

 root, if the weather be not showery. A few might 

 now also be sown for planting about the end of 

 July or first of August, to come in as spring greens, 

 or coleworts. 



Of 'planting Leeks. 



Leeks, for a full crop, may now be planted. They 

 require a good soil, and can hardly be overdunged. 

 Indeed, they do little good on poor land. If let 

 stand till spring, they exhaust the ground much. 

 Plant in lines twelve or fifteen inches asunder, and 

 five or six in line, according to the quality of the 



