THE AMERICAN GARDENER. 



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i glass or two, (see Paragraph 94,) use one or the 

 other in this case; but, if not, dig a hole and put in 

 it, well-shaken together, a couple of wheel-barrows 

 i full of good hot dung ; and lay some good rich mould 

 ' upon it six inches thick. Then lay on this some of 

 the earliest sort of dwarf-beans. Put them not more 

 i; than an inch apart, and cover them with two inches 

 1 of fine rich mould. Bend some rods over the whole, 

 j and put the ends of the rods in the ground ; and, 

 .j every evening, cover this sort of roof over with a 

 f bit of old carpet or sail-cloth. In default of these, 

 corn-stalks may do. Do this when the winter frost 

 is just got out of the ground, or soon after. The 

 beans will be up in a week's time ; and, in about a 

 fortnight afterwards, they will be fit to remove. 

 The place for them is under a wall, a paling, or a 

 hedge, facing the South. Prepare the ground well 

 , and make it rich. Take a spade and carry away a 

 part of the beans at a time, and plant them at six 

 ' inches asunder with as much earth about the roots 

 as you can. Plant them a little deeper than they 

 I stood in the bed. They are very juicy, and may 

 ' have a little water given them as soon as planted. 

 Shade them the first day, if the weather be warm 

 and the sun out; and cover them every night till 

 all frosts be over. This is easily done, if against 

 any sort offence, by putting boards, one edge upon 

 I the ground and the other leaning against the fence ; 



but, if you have no fence, and have to plant in the 

 i open ground, it will be best to plant in clumps, and 

 fliower-pots put over the clumps will do for a cover- 

 ing. In Long Ivsland a clod or two, or a brick or 

 , two, laid by the side of the clumps, will hold up a 

 large horse-foot fish shell, which is an excellent co- 

 i! vering. On the first of June, 1817, I saw a farmer 

 at South Hempstead, covering his beans with hurr 



