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The ground should be well manured and prepared before either the roots or 

 seeds are planted. For this climate the sowing of seed is preferable. Eoots are 

 generally imported from the North, and I have found that the roots raised here, 

 one 3'ear old, are as strong as those received from the Xorth three years old. Plant 

 the seed in early spring. Soak over night in water ; plant in rows, or rather hills, 

 one foot apart and two feet between ; put from four to five seeds in each hill ; when 

 well up thin out to two plants. The following winter, when the stalks are cut off, 

 cover with a heavy cqat of well rotted manure and a sprinkling of salt ; nshbrine 

 will answer the same purpose. In the spring fork in the man are between the rows, 

 and keep clean of weeds. The same treatment should be repeated every year. 

 The bed should not be cut before being three years established. Care must be 

 taken not to cut the stalks too soon in the fall of the year — not until we have had 

 a frost. If cut before, it will cause the roots to throw up young shoots, which will 

 weaken them. 



BUSH BEANS. 



CULTURE. 



Place in rows eighteen inches apart ; drop a bean every two or three inches. 

 Plant from end of February, and for succession, every two or three weeks to May. 

 Bush Beans planted in this latitude during June and July, will not produce much. 

 August and September are good months in which to plant again ; they will pro- 

 duce abundantly till killed by the frost. Do not cover the seeds more than two 

 inches. 



POLE BEANS. 



Lima Beans should not be planted before the ground has become warm in 

 spring. Strong poles ought to be set in the ground from four to six feet apart, and 

 the ground drawn around them before the seed is planted. It is always best to 

 plant after a rain and with the eye of the bean down. The other varieties can be 

 planted flat, and not more than three to four feet apart, and hilled after they are 

 up. Do not cover the seeds more than two inches ; one inch is enough for the 

 Southern Prolific and Crease Back. 



BEANS. 



(DWAEF, SNAP or BUSH. ) 

 Habicot (Fr.i, Bohne ^Ger.), Fkijolexano (Sp- i 

 Pride of Newton. Early China Red-Eije. 



Earhj Valentine Bed Speckled. Bed Kidney. 



Early Mohawk Six Weekii. Dwarf Golden Wax. 



Early Yellow Six Weeks. Best of AIL 



German Dwarf Wax. Improved. Valentine. 



White Kidney. 1 WardweWs Dwarf Kidney Wax. 



Pride of Newton. Xovelty from Early Hlohawk Six weeks. This 

 last year. This is a robust, strong grow- is a long podded variety, and very hardy, 

 ing beaD with long flat pods, which are It is used to a large extent for the mar- 

 light green. It is quite early and very ket for the first planting ; very produc- 

 productive. The bean is similar to the tive. 



Yellow Six Weeks in color, but much Early Yellovv.'Six Tf^eeks. This 



hardier. is the most popular sort among market 



Early Valentine, one of the best gardeners. Pods flat and long ; a very 

 varieties ; pods round, tender and quite good bearer, but not so good for ship- 

 productive : not much planted for the ping as the Mohawk or Valentine, 

 market. Excellent for shipping. German Dwarf IVax. Agoodva- 



