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thofe who have wrote of it fay, that 

 the fruit and pods, when boil'd together 

 and butter'd, don t engender wind, as 

 other pulfes do ; that they give a gentle 

 relaxation to the ventricles, provoke 

 urine, and create good and laudable 

 blood 5 but fhould be eaten whilft they 

 are young and green, and tenderly boil'd. 

 Raifing. The raifuig this very ufeful legumen to 

 the perfedion it now is, has not been 

 known (at leaft not pradifed) till of late, 

 there having been no other feafon for 

 fowing or planting it (fince the time I 

 my felf have had experience in garden 

 works, which is now about twenty four 

 or twenty five years) but only in April 

 whereas we now begin fowing them in 

 January and February y and fo hold on 

 at equal intervals of time, once a month, 

 till the latter end of Mayy or beginning 

 of June. 



The firft fowing is on the back of 

 your frames, or earlieft ridges and hot- 

 beds for afparagus, melons or cucum- 

 bers, about the middle or latter end of 

 January y or beginning of February, 



The manner of fowing and planting 

 is fo eafy and fo well known, that I 

 need not enlarge upon it 5 but as thefe 



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