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3. Their Temperature. 
The Arabian Herbarifts allow themto be of a hot and moitt 
Nature, but I don’t find that our Englijb Herbarifés have taken 
any Notice of their Temperature. 
4. Their medicinal Virtues. 
The Cods being boiled when young make an excellent Sallet, 
they gently loofen the Belly, provoke Urine, ereate good Blood, 
and are very great Nourifhers. 
The Beansthemfelves, when ripe and dry, are eaten by many, 
being boiled and: butter’d, but are very unwholefome. 
s. The Parts for Ufe. 
The Cods when about half grown, fo as, when broken, not 
to have Strings on their Sides, holding the parts together: And 
when ufed for pickling, they muft be very young, and frefh 
gathered. 
6. The Quantity is at Pleafure. 
7. Their Cultivation. : 
Altho’I did not mention the different Kinds of white Kid 
ney Beans in the Defcription, yet I cannot proceed to their 
Culture, before I explain the fame. 
Of the white Kidney Beans there are divers Kinds, which to 
mention in general, would be both a needlefs and endlefs Work, © 
and therefore fhall defcribe but one Kind; for in fa@, I cannot 
recommend any other, and that is the true Batterfea Bean, 
which is of the fame form as the others, but very {mall, ’tis 
a very great Bearer, comes early, and of an excellent delicious 
Fafte ; all which Qualifications are not to be found in any O- 
ther Bean of the Kidney Tribe. 
This Kind of Kzdney Bean delights in a light, warm, frefh Soil, 
(and not in wet, for that is pre{ent Death to them) if it takes 
them before they are above Ground 3 therefore to fow them 
very carly in wet Weather, is needlefs, for ’tis very feldom or 
ever that they efcape being rotted by the wet: But if the 
Spring is not over dry, we may begin to fow fome for our 
fet Crop, about the latter end of March, or a Week fooner, 
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