SECT. XV. OF ESCULENTS. 



which is the heft, as to earlirtffs and quality. The 

 yellow and the black are, perhaps, as forward as any, 

 The early white is not long behind, and is of fuperior 

 flavour, but not fo hardy as the yellow and black, and 

 fome others. The white may therefore be the fecond 

 crop. The dwarf forts come in quicker than the run. 

 ners. For the principal crop, the Battcrfca and Can- 

 terbury beans are moftly ufed by the market gardeners, 

 being good and proline. 



Of the runners, or climbing fort, the common Jcarlet 

 and the white Dutch, are generally preferred, and 

 when mixed together, their bJoffpms make an agreeable 

 fhew, and bear a long time, if the beans are gathered 

 conftantly as they get fit for ufe. 



The dwarf forts of this vegetable may be had mod 

 months in the year, by the united means of open cul- 

 ture, hot-beds, and hot-houles. In cold ground they 

 are fometimes fown, clofe under a Jhiifh wall, ^towards 

 the end of a dry March; but April is foon enough ; for 

 if they get above ground without rotting, (as the feed is 

 apt to do, when the ground is long wet J a little jro/l will 

 cut them off. It is a good way to fow again in about 

 a week- left the firft fiiould fail to come up. 



The latter end of March, however, if fome are fown 

 in a warm border, in patches, and covered with hand- 

 glaffes, they will do very well. Or an early crop may 

 be produced by raifing the beans, at this time, on a 

 gentle hot-bed, and planting them out, when two or three 

 inches high, under glaffes, in patches of four or five, 

 and near two feet 3 (under* Ir the beans are raifed in 

 fmall pots, three or four in each, they may be turned 

 out whole, with great advantage, as kidney beans do not 

 always bear transplanting well ; and they may be covered 

 on nights with hand-glaiies, garden pots, &c. 



When thefe forwarded beams are planted in rozus 

 lingly, let it be under a warm wall, and not (if it can be 

 avoided) till the end of April, or beginning of May ; and 



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