106 New Principles of Gardeiing. 
The Bean having very great Varieties, it would be endlefs, 
as well as ufelefs, to defcribe all its feveral Kinds, and as 
there are but two Kinds that are very good, and valuable among 
Gardiners , therefore I fhall take notice of thofe two, and o- 
mit all the other. The firft is the Spanijb or Lisbon Bean , 
which in Nature ishardy enoughto endure moft of our Winters 
Frofts, gc. and produces an early Crop about the end of Aprel 
or beginning of AZay. 
This Kind of Bean is commonly planted under Eaf, 
South or Weft Walls, in October, or November, at about fix 
or eight Inches diftant from the Wall, and the like diftance 
in the Row: And altho’ by this Means they come in very early 
in the ‘Spring, and at firft gathering receive a kind Welcome, 
or if fold, a tolerable good Price ; yet I cannot by any Means. 
advife their being planted fo very near to the Fruit Trees, 
which, if great care is not taken, are very much damaged thereby. 
I have too often feen, that for the fake of three or four Beans, 
not worth one Penny, a good Peach or other Fruit Tree, 
worth half a Crown, .:as been deftroyed, by fuffering thofe Beans. 
to grow fo very near, as totally to deprive the Tree of its pro- 
per Nourifhment, and thereby became (if not quite dead) good 
for nothing and irrecoverable. 
And befides, itis not the Lofs of the prime Coft and Ex- 
pence of planting it only, but the great Difappointment and 
Lofs of one Year, which is a very great part of a Man’s Life. 
Now that this Praétice may be laid afide, the Fruit Trees no 
ways injured, and the Table be well and early furnifh’d with a 
good Supply; I advife that about the, end of Augu/f, or mid- 
dle of September, you plant or fet as many of thefe early Kinds: 
of Beans, in an open Border, at about three Inches every way 
diftant from one another, as you may have Occafion for, for 
your firt Crop, which when grown about three Inches or there- 
abouts in height, muft be taken up and tranfplanted againft 
fuch parts of your Walls as are naked, but never nearer to 
the Root or Stem of any Fruit Tree, than three Feet on each 
fide thereof at the leaft: And others may. be tran{planted in 
Lines about fix Inches apart, at two Feet and half afunder. But 
the neareft Line of thofe planted from the Wall, muft not be 
nearer to the firft than fix Feer at the neareft. A Plantation 
of this Kind will produce a much greater Crop, and ss tp 
than 
