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The poles should be eight or ten feet long, and may be fixed 
in the ground before the Beans are planted. 
The varieties of Lima Beans should not be planted in the 
open groumd until the second week in May, unless the sea- 
son be very favourable, and the ground warm. As these 
Beans are apt to get rotten by cold and damp weather, l^t. 
six or eight be planted half an inch deep round each pole, 
and afterward thinned, leaving three or four good plants in 
a hill, which hills should be full four feet distant from each 
other every way. 
The soil for Running Beans should be the same as for 
Dwarfs, except the Lima, which require richer ground than 
any of *the other sorts. A shovelful of rich light compost, 
mixed with the earth in each hill, would be beneficial. 
If any varieties are wanted before the ordinary seasons, 
they may be planted in flower-pots, in April, and placed in 
a greenhouse or garden frame, and being transplanted in 
May, with the balls of earth entire, will come into bearing ten 
or fourteen days earlier than those which, in the first instance, 
are planted in the open ground. 
It will require about a quart of Lima Beans to plant one 
hundred hills. A quart of the smallest-sized Pole Beans will 
plant three hundred hills and upward, or about two hundred 
and fifty feet of row, and the largest runners will go about 
as far as the Lima Beans. 
Lima Beans should be shelled while fresh, and boiled in 
plenty of water until tender, which generally takes from fif- 
teen to twenty minutes. The mode of cooking and prepar- 
h*** the other sorts, is the same as for Kidney Dwarfs 
