OF ESCULENTS. 



SECT. XV. 



prote£l them awhile at firff, on cold nights, with mat- 

 ting, or otherwife. 



As to the hoi-bed culture of kidney beans, if anv are 



attempted to he brought to fruit on heat, let them be 

 raifed, towards the end of February, upon one gentle 

 bed, (or in pots, at the back of a cucumber frame) and 

 planted out in another, in rows fifteen inches a-part, 

 and at four inches in the rows ; for nearer thev will 

 not fruit well. The bed may be about- two and a half 

 feet thick, and muft have on it feven or eight inches of 

 mould, and the plants treated witH as much air as can 

 fafely be given them. Line the bed before the heat fa 

 quite gone, to preferve and forward them. The fort 

 moft ufed for forcing in hot-houfes is a reddiih fpeckled 

 one; but the early white is fitteft for forcing in hot-beds^ 

 as of lower growth : The early yellow and black may 

 do. Support them by ties to little flicks. 



The common culture of the dwarf bean, in the proper 

 feafon, and open ground, is to fow r them an inch or an 

 inch and a half deep, three afunder, and two feet, or a 

 little more, to a yard between the rows, according to 

 the ftze of the feed, for fome fores require more room 

 than others. Let them be earthed up as they proceed 

 in growth ; and to have a JucccJJion, fow every three 

 ■weeks; remembering that a crop produces more, and 

 lafls longer, the oftener the beans are gathered : It is 



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proper, therefore, to do it conftandy whilll pung and 

 good, even if not w T anted.. 



The lajl crop fhould be under a warm wall, and may 

 be fown as late as the middle, or end of July ; and if 

 very dry weather, let the beans for this, and the June 

 crop, be foaked about twelve hours in milk and water,, 

 and the drills watered, in order to forward their germi- 

 nation, and bring them more certainly and regularly up. 

 It is a good way to prepare the feed for high hammer, 

 by laying it in damp mould till it begins to chit, and 

 then planting it in watered drills, In a eourfe of dry 



warm 



