428 FORCING DEPARTMENT. 



FRENCH BEANS. 



The Kidney Bean, as a culinary vegetable, is in 

 much demand in most families ; but by its being a 

 native of a tropical climate, it requires a high tem- 

 perature to bring it to perfection at an early season. 

 It is most generally and successfully cultivated in 

 the Pine Stove, the atmosphere of which appears 

 congenial for its growth and maturity in the Winter 

 months. 



French Beans may be likewise forwarded and 

 brought to perfection in small pits heated with hot- 

 water ; and in pits, where the temperature is kept 

 up by external linings of dung ; but when there is 

 room on the back flues, or front curbs of the bark 

 bed in the Pine Stove, they will be accelerated with 

 less expense and trouble by growing them in pots, 

 and placing them on the stone curbs or back flues ; 

 a large supply may thus be regularly grown, and 

 continued during the Winter season in this depart- 

 ment, without increasing the consumption of fuel, or 

 applying linings of dung, which must be resorted to, 

 if grown in a pit separately. 



About the middle of December, two or three large 

 pans, about six inches deep, should be filled with 

 light rich mould, that has been well incorporated 

 with rotten dung ; these pans should be thickly set 

 with the Beans, placing them quite close together, 

 as, if old seed, many of them will not vegetate ; 



