Jan.] THE FORCING GAKDLX. 6U\ 



the pots or boxes, in order to support the plants ; and where 

 they shew a disposition to become climbing or straggling, top 

 them a little, which will induce them to throw out lateral 

 shoots. 



The sorts most generally preferred for forcing are, the Dun- 

 colored, Early-negrOf and Sjjeckled-dwarf ; and, for succes- 

 sional crops, should be sown every fortnight or three weeks 

 from this time till March. 



French-beans are also successfully cultivated in flued-pits, in 

 common dung hot-beds, and, in both cases, are first reared in 

 seed-pans or boxes, and when about three inches high, are 

 pricked out for good, in rows across the beds, which are pre- 

 pared for them, of light rich loam and nearly half-rotten dung, 

 or where it can be had, rich vegetable mould. They are 

 treated, as to watering and supporting, in the same way as if 

 in the pine-stove, w^atching carefully the progress of the red 

 spider and thrips, which must be subdued by the same means 

 already recommended for those in the pine-stove. The trou- 

 ble, however, of growing them in hot-beds is such, that few 

 attempt it so early in the season, neither is the fruit so fine 

 nor yet so plentiful, as when produced in either a pit or stove. 



The Early-divarf whiter from its dwarf habit, is preferred 

 for pits or frames, and so is also the Early yellow, and Early 

 blacky as being next in point of dwarfness ; neither of them, 

 however, is so prolific as those recommended for the stove. 

 Great care must be taken to cover every night with mats, or 

 other means more convenient, for a slight degree of frost w^ould 

 prove fatal to them at this season. Their extreme tenderness 

 is not so well suited to the hot-bed frame, where the degi*ees 

 of temperature are liable to changes, from a variety of causes 

 over which the cultivator has no control, and which he cannot 

 either foresee or resist till it be often too late. 



The temperature, in pits or frames, in which kidney-beans 

 are grown, will require to be kept up to 65° throughout the 

 night, and 75° throughout the day, both taken as the maxi- 

 nunii. It will be more convenient in pits or frames to accom- 

 modate them with air, therefore this should be attended to at 

 all seasonable times. A free circulation of fresh air, plenty of 

 water, and a high temperature, all of which can be obtained 



