GARDENING FOR ALL, 59 
Broad beans are usually sown too thickly, and more care 
ought to be taken to sow only strong ani clean seed. The 
Windsor, Seville, and similar varieties may be sown in 
double rows three feet apart, and the seeds ought to be not 
less than six inches from each other. Given space and food 
strong plants are the result, and vigorous plants are most 
capable of producing abundant crops. 
Beans are a good succession crop to cabbage, cauliflower, 
broccoli, and kindred plants. 
Broad beans are subject to the attack of the black 
aphis, which sometimes quickly injures or destroys the 
plants, as happened in 1893. On the first appearance of the 
aphis we ought at once to cut off the affected parts and burn 
them ; where this is practicable (it is scarcely practicable in 
whole fields of beans) and carried into effect, the attack and 
injury is much mitigated. 
A golden rule in subduing pests and insects of all kinds 
is to attack them early, whilst they are few in number, and 
they are quickly and effectually overcome. ‘‘ Delays are 
dangerous”’ in these, as in many other matters. 
Varieties of vegetables are now so numerous that most 
people have some difficulty in making selections from the 
long lists of names submitted to them in seedsmen’s catalogues. 
Not infrequently we have old friends presented to us under 
new names, and inferior varieties posing under dignified titles 
which do not belong to them. 
The following list of vegetables in the division devoted to 
«Green Crops,” is submitted to my readers in the hope that 
it may assist them in making choice of suitable varieties 
of the kinds they wish to cultivate, and as being likely to 
give satisfaction if cultivated under ordinarily favourable 
conditions :— 
Artichoke.—Globe—Large Green Globe, Large Purple. 
A spavagus.—Conover’s Colossal, Early Purple Argentenil. 
Beans.—Dwarf or French—Canadian Wonder, Fulmer’s 
Forcing, Ne plus ultra. Beans.—Runner—Neal’s Ne plus 
ultra, Painted Lady, Old Scarlet, Czar. 
