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proGur d from Holland^ and are now to 

 be had in many places, particularly at a 

 place to which I firfl fent them, I mean 

 the Lord Coningsbfs at Hawpton-Court 

 in Herefordshire, 



The manner of fowing, or rather 

 planting kidney beans, is two ways, 

 either in drills as we do peafe, or in 

 round hills as we do hops, and the laft 

 is the beft way for the large kind juft 

 mentioned 5 be it which you will, they 

 ought to be fet in fair weather, and 

 when the earth is dried, or they will 

 be apt to rot on account of the thin- 

 nefs of their skins : For which reafon 

 it is well to open the holes or drills to 

 lay them drying, in all dry, windy, fun- 

 fhine weather $ and if the ground is 

 poor, to put well-confuni d dung at the 

 bottom of the holes 5 and under that, 

 rotten, butter-like dung, for the roots 

 to rim in. 



Concerning the culture of kidney 0/^ the 

 beans, there is not much to be faid, ^^^^'"^ ^/ 

 after they are well planted as before di- ^J^l 

 redted; if they are tranfplanted from 

 feed-beds (which may be done as well 

 as you do cabbage plants) they fhould be 

 watered till they have taken raot i but 



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