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to clasp the pole, which is contrary to
cold water.
the course of the sun, and opposite to
If the season is too ungenial after all
to remove them even to a warm border
the plants are ofYen inserted in patches,
to have the protection of frames or
the habit of most climbers.
Those who have not the convenience
of a frame, (or hand-glass which will
answer the same purpose,) should have
hand lights at night, or as the weather the hills prepared and poles inserted,
demands.
Said to be perennial.—It has
choosing a mild, dry time, about the
been close of May, for planting the beans,
stated, that kidney beans appear of a If wet weather should '^immediately
perennial nature, 'and that they have succeed, and the seed rot, replant as
been observed to vegetate for several soon as the ground dries. Good crops
years—the plants being in the vicinity have been produced in the vicinity of
of a steam-engine, and so situated that Philadelphia, when planted even so late
the frost could not penetrate to the as first of June.
roots. After they become well established,
Beans, Pole.—The Scarlet Runners,! and have clasped the poles, no further
and While Dutch Beans, are very deli- care is requisite, other than keeping the
under, and the hills occasionally
fine days, and there watering them with '
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in the pod, or shelled when further stirred.
advanced; but in this section of the; The Carolina or Sewee bean, is of a
country, and perhaps further South, they smaller size than the Lima; much
bear so sparingly most seasons, as to be hardier, rather earlier, and more proecarcely
worth cultivating. ductive, but generally considered less
The Lima is too well known to need rich. In
description. Two varieties are cuiti- resemble
other respects they closely
each other—time and mode
vated ; the one broad and thin, the of planting may be a little in advance
other much thicker. We have some- of the Lima—cultivation precisely the
! times thought. the latter the more tender same. Rural Reg.
anu delicate when boiled. The Lima Beavs, English. Vicia Faba, of
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slighted frost, and is very subject to rot Ger. Fava, Hal. Habas, Span.
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when planted early, or during a spell ofi Of the above kind, commonly called
j rainy or damp cool weather. To guard in this country " Horse Bean," there is
against which, the best plan is to sprout considerable variety two of them have
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them in a frame, (as recommended for been selected by us for
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cultivation, be-
thc Long Pod or Windsor,) so situated,; lieving them the best adapted for the
that the damp and frost can he excluded
An old hot-bed answers the purpose
effectually. They need not be planted
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climate, and quite sufficient of the kind.
They are the Early Long Pod and Broad
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Windsor. Both succeed with the same
therein, before the middle of spring, nor treatment, but the first named, is
transplanted till towards its close; a more certain bearer of the two.
the
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little earlier or later, as the weather England, where they are extensively
may make expedient ; if planted early, cultivated, they do much better than in
they will at best remain stationary, and this country, preferring its damp cool
may, perhaps, do worse. They should atmosphere, to our frequently dry and
be planted in hills in well cultivated hot one ; to counteract which, it is deground,
dressed either in the piece or sirable to plant so early in the spring,
hills, with thoroughly rotted manure as the ground will admit of being
from the barn-yard. The hills should worked; in the latitude of Philadelphia,
be raised three or four inches above the (39= 57) the latter part of February,
average level, and be three feet apart or beginning of March, if possible;
each way, with a pole six or eight feet they then come into flower before, the
liigh, well secured in the ground, to weather becomes hot, otherwise the
each hill. Three plants in a hill are! blossoms drop, and set no fruit.
Bufhcient. As the vines shoot up, they Plant them in drills, either single or
should be tied to the poles, till they get double, two inches apart in the drills,
hold, when they will support them- and cover one to two inches deep. If
selves. In trying them, observe to do in double drills, with alleys two and a
half feet wide. If in single rows, two
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