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any be amongft them. Know alfo that it is not convenient to 
beftow either dung or foyl on your Peafe ground, except it 
be very poor, not only in refped of your Peafe, which will 
ripen fooneft on an indifferent midling ground, but in 
regard of the Crop of turnips which you miy have after your 
Peafe are ripe and gone, which are beft and fweeteft when 
they grow on a ground not very rich or forct with dung. 
The fealbn to few your Peafe is about Alhallontide , either 
a little before or a little after for the forward eft. And like- 
wife from February until the end of April , fometimes in 
May , if of a very quick kind, as Hot-fpurs or the like, 
the which forts being fo wn in the Ipring on an indifferent 
ground, I mean not too rich, nor very poor, may bring 
Peafeods fit to gather in eight or nine weeks, if excels of 
wet hinder not, or the ground is not of a cold, or wet 
Gardner. 
nature. 
Beans are to be fet about a foot or ibmewhat more a- 
funder every way, efpecially if the ground be rich, or much 
©ver-Qiadowed with trees or high hedges, or they may be 
fown or fet in the form as Peafe in trayls or gutters, allow¬ 
ing about a foot and a half between each row, and fetting 
your Beans about half a foot afiinder $ be careful to cover 
them well, left the Mice disappoint you of part of your crop , 
be careful to keep your ground clean from weeds amongft 
your Beans with a good firarp Howe, as oft as oceafion 
requires. Some top their Beans whiift they are very young 
as about half a foot high, the which may otcafion them 
to branch the better, and fo yield the more profit 5 bu t where 
this good husbandry is ufedyour Beans muft not be fet too 
thick or near together, ©thers do. not top their Beans until 
they be about two foot high or more, to the end their beans, 
may ripen the better together, that fo they may have 
their crop offin good time, that they may Bow their ground 
with Turnips •>- others fo Boon as they have the chief eft of 
their crop off, do cut their b.ean-ftalks within a little of the 
ground,which often occasions a new crop from thefiame beans. 
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