June.^ 



THE CULINARY GARDEN. 



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JUNE. 



PLANTING BEANS. 



Beans, for the last principal crop of the season, may be planted 

 about the beginning of the month. The sorts most proper 

 for the early crops are also the fittest for the late ones. Plant 

 the mazagan-bean for this crop, in an exposed situation; if 

 planted under the shade of trees, the plants will be destroyed 

 by a small parasitical fungus (Uredo Faba)^ which has a 

 rushy appearance, and is very destructive to the late crops of 

 beans in shaded situations. 



The beans which are now in blossom should be examined 

 and topped, for reasons given in the preceding months. 



Earth up, and otherwise stir the surface of the advancing 

 crops, as necessity may require. 



SOWING PEAS. 



Peas for autumn crops should be sown both at the beginning 

 and also at the end of the month. If the weather and the 

 ground be dry, it will greatly encourage vegetation, if they be 

 soaked for a few hours in water before they arc sown, and it 

 will tend much to their advantage, if when the drills are drawn, 

 a quantity of water be poured into them, so as completely to 

 saturate the ground. The sorts for the sowing made at the 

 beginning of the month should be the dwarf-marrow, Hotspur's 

 dwarf-sugar, Leadman's dwarf, and Spanish dwarf; but the 

 best of all peas for this sowing is Knight's marrow-pea, which 

 ought to be sown every eight or ten days, from the beginning 

 to the end of June. The practice of well watering the drills 

 is absolutely necessary to the future success of this pea in par- 

 ticular. The seeds should be sown in a single row and not 

 thick. If the ground be not naturally deep, it must be made 

 so, by drawing up the mould, so as to form a ridge, on the 

 top of which the drill should be made for the seed, which after 

 l)eing properly watered is ready for. sowing. If dry weather 

 at any time set in, t^ is pea will require an abundant supply of 



