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THE PRACTICAL GARDENER. 



[July. 



has been previously well manured, it will prove of consider- 

 able benefit to the crop. 



The plants should be set out in rows, allowing at least 

 two feet between each row, and about the same distance from 

 one another in the row. Immediately that they are planted, 

 give them some water, and if the weather should subsequently 

 prove dry, the watering should be repeated once every two or 

 three days, until the plants have taken root. 



Look carefully over the whole brassica tribe in showery 

 weather, and destroy slugs, which otherwise would soon de- 

 sti'oy the crops. Much has been said on the destruction of 

 slugs, but we have never found a more effectual method than 

 that of simply picking them up with the hand. This ought to 

 be the first thing done in the mornings, tlie earlier the better, 

 and as they are gathered into a flower-pot, let them be carried 

 away to a great distance from the garden, and buried ; or, if 

 they be thrown into a tub, and a quantity of hot water poured 

 over them, they will soon be destroyed. 



Continue to look carefully for a few mornings over ttie crops 

 subject to be annoyed by the slugs, and the injury will soon be 

 remedied. Lime is sometimes strewed round each plant, but it 

 soon loses its alkalescent properties when laid on the damp 

 ground, and much sooner when exposed to the dews and rain. 

 Lime-water has been recommended, but that is attended with 

 more trouble, and less success, than the plan of picking them 

 up by the hand, 



FRENCH OR KIDNEY-BEANS. 



Kidney-beans may now be planted for a late crop, for which 

 purpose either the running kinds or the dwarfs are the most 

 proper. It must, however, be observed, that unless the seed 

 be planted before the third week of this month, this crop very 

 rarely succeeds, especially if the autumn be unfavorable. 



The situation most proper for this crop, is where it may in 

 some degree be sheltered from the severity of the frost, which 

 sometimes happens in the mornings of September ; but if the 

 weather prove mild, this crop, if regularly and constantly 

 gathered as it is produced, will continue to bear until October. 



