466 MANUAL OF GARDENING 
One quart of seed will plant 100 feet of drill of the bush beans; ot 
1 quart of Limas will plant 100 hills. 
Limas are the richest of beans, but they often fail to mature in the 
northern states. The land should not be very strong in nitrogen (or 
stable manure), else the plants will run too much to vine and be too 
late. Choose a fertile sandy or gravelly soil with warm exposure, 
use some soluble commercial fertilizer to start them off, and give them 
the best of culture. Aim to have the pods set before the droughts of 
midsummer come. Good trellises for beans are made by wooi twine 
stretched between two horizontal wires, one of which is drawn a foot 
above the ground and the other 6 or 7 feet high. 
Bean plants are not troubled by insects to any extent, but they are 
sometimes attacked by blight. When this occurs, do not plant the 
same ground to beans again for a year or two. 
Beet. — This vegetable is grown for its thick root, and for its 
herbage (used as “greens’’); and 
ornamental-leaved varieties are 
sometimes planted in flower-gardens. 
Being one of the hardiest of spring 
vegetables, the seed may be sown as 
early in the spring as the ground can 
be worked. A light, sandy soil is the 
best on which to grow beets to per- 
fection, but any well-tilled garden 
land will raise satisfactory crops.. On 
heavy ground the turnip beet gives 
the best results, as the growth is 
nearly all at or above the surface. 
The long varieties, having tapering 
roots running deep into the soil, are 
liable to be misshapen unless the 
physical condition of the soil is such 
that the roots meet with little ob- 
struction. A succession of sowings 
should be made, at intervals of two 
297. Bastian turnip beet. to three weeks, until late summer, as 
