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with which it is boiled. There are several sorts of 

 these garden-beans, the best of which is the large 

 flat-seeded bean, called the Windsor-Bean, The 

 Long-Pod is the next best; and, though there are 

 several others, these are enough to mention here. — 

 The bean is difficult to raise here. It does not like 

 dry and hot weather ; and it likes moist and stifi 

 land. If attempted to be raised in America, it 

 should be sown in the fall by all means (see Para- 

 graph 159;) but, still it is useless to sow, unless you 

 guard against mice. If sown in the South Border, 

 where it would be shaded and protected from the 

 hot sun, it might do pretty well ; and the vegetable 

 is convenient as it follows immediately after the 

 early peas are gone. — Ten rows of these beans 

 across the South Border, four feet apart, and the 

 beans four inches apart, will be enough for a family. 



197. BEAN (KIDNEY.)— Endless is the variety 

 of sorts. Some are dwarf s^ some climbers ; but, 

 the mode of propagating and cultivating is nearly 

 the same in all, except that the dwarfs require 

 smaller distances than the climbers, and that the 

 latter are grown with poles, which the former are 

 not. In this fine country the seed is so good, the 

 soil and climate so favourable to the plant, the use 

 of the vegetable so general, the propagation and 

 cultivation so easy, and so well understood, that 

 little in detail need be said about them. I prefer 

 sowing the dwarfs in rows to sowing them in hunches 

 or clumps. It is a great object to have them earlyj 

 and, they may be had much earlier than they usually 

 are with a little pains. It is useless to sow them 

 while the ground is cold ; for they will not grow tili 

 it be warm ; but, there are means to be used to ge^ 

 them forwarder than the natural ground will pro 

 duce them. If you have a glazed frame^ or a hand 



