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out, and gave us two dozen ears about the middle 

 of September. 



"fFax Beans. — Cost of seed, five cents; length of 

 rows, forty feet. The early planting was made 

 May 20, and was in bearing from July 8 till past 

 the middle of August, and after that, scattering till 

 frost. The late planting was made August 19 and, 

 as bad luck would have it, had just reached the 

 pickable stage when frost destroyed it. 



"Bush Lima Beans. — Cost of seed, one cent; 

 length of rows twenty feet. The cost of this seed 

 is not worth computing, as the plants were thinnings 

 from another part of the garden and would have 

 been destroyed had we not transplanted them. 



"Pole String Beans. — Cost of seed, three cents; 

 length of row, twelve feet. These did themselves 

 credit. Sowed June 3, they had reached the top 

 of a 6-foot trellis by the middle of July and began 

 to bear a week later. They did not yield any large 

 pickings until the middle of August, but after that 

 covered themselves with glory, and on September 

 6 a picking of three hundred pods — about four 

 quarts — was made. After that time they bore in 

 small quantities until frost. 



"Pole Lima Beans. — Cost of seed, eight cents; 

 length of row thirty feet. These were sowed on 

 the east side of a trellis, the west side of which was 

 covered with pea vines. The latter had a month's 

 start and by the time they were out of the way the 

 beans were ready to occupy the whole trellis. We 

 sowed an early kind on May 25, and they came up 

 so thickly that we transplanted about two dozen 



