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five or six beans in each, covered about two. inches deep. 
If all the seeds grow, the plants may be thinned to. three. 
If they fail, replanting will of course be required... Although 
they will, in rich ground and in a good season, grow to the 
length of twenty fect, the poles usually employed for their 
support are not over ten.or twelve feet in height,.it being 
necessary that two feet shall be under’ ground. 
The Carolina Sewee or Saba Bean, though notso large, 
has all the habits of the Lima, but'is more hardy and a 
more abundant producer, although inferior.in richness and 
buttery character. 
» A variety of Pole Beans, called the Dutch Case. Knife, 
is used either with or without the pod or hull, and is. also 
well adapted for winter use. It has a fine flavor, produces 
well, and comes earlier for the table than either the Lima 
or Carolina varieties. 
The kind called Scarlet Runners, from their red blos- 
soms, require to be planted rather earlier than the Lima, 
and need the same kind of support. 
What are known in England as the Windsor and Early 
Long Pod Beans, are not so well adapted to the American 
climate as the varieties just referred to. They may be 
planted in cool situations, in drills a foot and a half asun- 
der, and two inches apart in the row. 
Esculent Roots. 
Tue Potato (Solanum tuberoswum).—This well-known 
plant is a native of the elevated regions of equatorial 
America. It was introduced into Hurope about the mid- 
dle of the sixteenth century, but remained little known or 
regarded till within the last hundred years: and is now so 
generally cultivated as to have effected almost an economi- 
cal revolution in thiscountry. Most of the original British 
