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A KITCHEN GARDEN 
from the heating rains, and nearly every bean came 
up nicely, while those covered with earth were almost 
a total failure.* The Large White Lima is generally 
considered difficult to grow, but I cannot say so, as 
I have grown it without much difficulty, and had 
beans to perfection by the pailful throughout the 
summer. Mine were planted in very rich soil and 
the rows were about four feet apart, three plants to a 
hill, and the hills two feet apart. If supported by a 
trellis, beans should be placed one foot apart in the 
row. The above applies to all pole beans, whether 
Limas or string beans. Of the latter class of beans 
I have found White Creaseback a variety of great 
merit. Southern Prolific and Dutch Case Knife are also 
good. At the North, where the seasons are too short 
for the Large Lima, the Small Lima or Sieva , as it is 
also called, should be planted. 
Sow Beet and Carrot seed as early in spring as 
possible. Sow in drills and thin beets to five inches 
and carrots to three inches apart in the drill. To 
have Beets early we sometimes sow seed of an extra 
early variety in the hotbed and transplant to the 
garden when plants are a few inches high. The same 
may be done with early carrots. Sow Early Scarlet 
Horn Carrot for early use and Long Red Coreless for 
% This idea of a mulch of light material to coyer the freshly planted beans 
in a wet season is a very good one; but we would think that saving and 
applying Coffee Grounds for a bean patch of the size it should be in a 
garden of one acre, would be a good deal like u emptying a hogshead of 
water with a teaspoon.” We would suggest the use of sand, sifted coal 
ashes, chaff or buckwheat hulls, as answering the purpose equally well, and 
as being much more readily obtained.— Ed. 
