BEANS. if 
be taken with advantage in dry, parching feveiis, as well as in cases of dis¬ 
tressing flatulenc), attended with eructations, where the first passages have 
previously been opened.’ 7 — Dom . Ency . vol. i. p. 127 . 
BEANS. 
Phaseolus. — Haricot . Fr.-— Schminkbohne , Ger. 
The^e are two distinct species of the bean, which are often confounded by 
writers on agricultural subjects, to wit, vicia faba , garden bean, or horse 
bean, and phaseolus vulgaris , or kidney bean. The want of distinguishing be¬ 
tween these two different genera or sorts of plants, may lead to erroneous 
practices, and consequent detriment to the cultivator. 
The vicia faba, or garden bean, (often called English bean,) is an annual 
plant, rising from two to four feet high, with a thick, angular stem, the 
leaves divided, and without tendrils; the flowers white, with a black spot 
in the middle of the wing; seed-pods thick, long, woolly within, and in¬ 
closing the large ovate flatted seeds, for the sake of which the plant is culti¬ 
vated in gardens. The following varieties are advertised for sale in Mr. 
Russell’s Catalogue, viz. 
English dwarfs, 
Early mazagan, 
Sword long pod, 
lt These varieties should be planted as early as practicable in April.” 
It is said that this kind of bean is propagated to the best advantage in a 
stiff, moist loam, with a considerable proportion of clay. The following are 
Mr. Loudon’s directions for its culture :— 
Quantity of seeds. —For early crops, one pint of seed will be requisite for 
every eighty feet of row 5 for main crops, two quarts for every 240 feet of 
row ; and for late crops, nearly the same as the early. 
Method of sowing. —“ Plant all the sorts in rows, two feet and a half apart, 
for the smaller or very early or very late kinds; and three feet for the 
larger; the smaller beans two inches deep, and three inches distant in the 
row; the larger three inches deep, and four inches distant in the row.” 
Transplanting .—Speechly constantly transplants his early bean crops, and 
considers that this plant may be as easily transplanted as cabbage, or any 
other vegetable. It is a practice with him to plant beans, alternately with 
potatoes, in the same row ; the rows three feet apart, and the potatoes eight¬ 
een ‘nches apart in the row, so that the beans are nine inches from the pota¬ 
toes. The beans are transplanted, by which means they have the start and 
Green nonpareil, 
Broad Windsor. 
