New Principles of Gardening. 
provided you give your felf the trouble to ‘fow them in the 
following manner, viz. 
About the middle of March (your Ground being dig’d) 
draw Drills (under, or near unto a South Wall) at about 
two Feet and half or three Feet apart , or rather double Drills, 
within a Foot of one another, and then leaving a fpace be- 
‘tween them of four Feet, wherein may (at the Seafon) be planted 
a Crop of Savoys to fucceed them when done bearing. Your 
_ Drills being thus drawn drop in your Beans about an Inch di- 
{tant from one another, and coverup the Drills with the Earth, 
leaving a {mall Ridge over the Beans to throw off the Rains. 
This being done, ftrain a Line within three Inches of the 
Beans in the Drills, and with your Spade chop out, and open a 
{mall Trench, about three or four Inches deeper than the bot- 
toms of the Drills, which leave open till your Beans are above 
Ground, and got out of their Seed Leaves, for then they are 
paft all the Dangers that can happen from wet; and then fill 
them in again and earth up the young Plantation as is ufual. 
The Reafon of my advifing thofe Trenches, isto draw off 
the great Rains, gc. (if any fhould happen) from the Beans, 
which, if invaded by it, would deftroy them. This Method of 
opening Trenches , 1 have practifed with very great Succefs 
in divers Springs, and often in very wet ones; for let the 
Spring be ever fo wet, thefe Trenches never fail of preferving 
the Beans from it. When you make ufe of fingle Drills, ‘tis 
beft to draw them Ea/ and Weff, that the Trench may be made 
on the South fide, the better to receive the advantage of the 
Sun, to keep dry that part of the Drill next thereunto. But 
when you make ufe of double Drills, they muft be drawn 
North and South, that the Morning Sun may dry that Drill 
next to the Haff, and the Afternoon Sun that next to the 
Weft : For was you to draw double Drills Ea and We/?, the 
hindermoft Drill towards the North could have very little or 
no help from the Sun in keeping it dry. 
As foon as you find your Beans are in a thriving State, 
then they muft be thin’d, and left at about five or fix Inches 
apart, and thofe which you draw from them may be tran{planted 
at the fame Diftances, in fome other warm part of your Garden. 
The Reafon why I advife their being fown fo very thick is, 
that in cafe fome fhould fail by badnefs of Seed, wet, cre. 
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