which will be in about twenty minutes; take it up before it loses its true colour and flavour, and serve up on toasted bread, with melted butter, &c.

THE principal cause of these garden Beans not succeed. ing well in this country, is the summer heat overtaking them before they are podded, causing the blossom to drop off prematurely; to obviate this difficulty, they should be planted as early in the year as possible; as recommended in the article, "Forwarding Broad Beans." They are generally planted in England, from October to April, for early crops, and from that time to July, for late crops. It sometimes happens that autumn plantings are injured by the extremity of their winters, but they never miss having an

average crop.

In the Eastern, Western, and Middle States, if a few of the best varieties of these Beans be planted in the open ground, as soon in the season as it can be brought into good condition, they will come into bearing in regular succession, according to their different degrees of earliness, and plantings may be repeated every ten days of the first spring month; but it is only from those that are planted early, that any tolerable produce can be expected, as they become deficient in quality, as well as in quantity, on the approach of extreme warm weather.

In the Southern States, they may be planted in succession throughout the autumn and winter months, which will cause them to bear early in the ensuing season.

The best mode of planting is in drills, drawn two inches deep, in which the seed beans may be dropped two or three inches apart, according to their size, and the drills may be from two to three feet assunder. A strong clayey soil is the most suitable; but they often do well in moderately light ground, provided it be well trodden, or rolled, after the beans are planted.

As soon as the Beans are three or four inches high, they will need a careful hoeing, and if some earth be drawn up to their stems, three or four times in the course of their growth, it will greatly refresh and strengthen them.

When they arrive at full bloom, and the lower pods begin to set, the tops may be broken off. If this be done at the proper time, it will promote the swelling of the pods, as well as their early maturity; for having no advancing tops to nourish, the whole effort of the root will go to the support of the fruit.

Broad Beans are particularly subject to green bugs. Tobacco water, or salt water, will sometimes destroy them; but the most certain way is to watch their first appearance, and to pick off that part on which they first settle, and burn it; or if such plants be cut down close to the ground, they will produce fresh shoots which may bear a good crop.

One quart of seed Beans will be required for every sixty feet of row, allowing the smallest sorts to be planted about two inches apart, and the largest four inches.

The Beans should be gathered young, and shelled while fresh. After having been washed, let them be boiled in plenty of water with a little salt and a bunch of green parsley. They take from thirty to forty minutes boiling, according to age, and may be served up with melted butter, gravy, &c.; but they are very good when cooked and eaten with fat pork, or good old-fashioned Hampshire bacon..

These varieties of Beans being natives of India, South America, and other warm climates, will not endure the least cold, it is therefore always hazardous to plant them in the open ground until settled warm weather. The earliest varieties if planted towards the end of April, or the first week in May, will come to perfection in from six to eight weeks after planting. Some of the later varieties will keep longer in bearing, and are esteemed by some on that account. These, with some of the early varieties, may be planted in the months of May and June, and if a regular succession of young Beans be required throughout the summer, some of the varieties should be planted every two weeks, from the last week in April until the beginning of August.

These Beans require a light rich soil, in which they should be planted in hills, three or four in a hill, or drills about two inches deep, and the Beans two or three inches from each other; the drills may be from two to three feet apart. The Refugees are best planted in hills. As the Beans progress in growth, let them be carefully hoed, drawing some earth up to their stems at the same time, which will cause them to be soon fit for the table.

Many gardeners, anxious to have Beans early, are apt to begin planting too soon in the season, and very frequently lose their first crops. It should be recollected, that these

Beans are next to Cucumbers and Melons for tenderness, and will always grow quicker and yield better, if the planting be delayed until settled warm weather. The Early Mohawk

is the hardiest, and may sometimes succeed well, if planted about the middle of April.

One quart of Kidney Beans will plant from three hundred and fifty to four hundred hills, according to the size of the Beans, allowing four Beans to each hill, or from two hundred and thirty to two hundred and sixty feet of row, allowing six Beans to every foot.

These Beans should not be suffered to get old and tough before they are gathered; be careful in trimming them, to strip off the strings; to effect this desirable object, break them across; and, in order to preserve their greenness, soak them in salted water for a short time, then put them into the water while boiling, which should be previously seasoned with salt. When they are tender, which will be in from fifteen to twenty minutes, take them up, and drain them. through a colander, in order to render them capable of absorbing a due share of gravy, melted butter, &c.

These species and varieties of Beans may be planted early in the month of May, and in June, either in hills three feet distant from each other, or in drills about two inches deep, and the beans two or three inches apart in the drills. 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 ground until the second week in May, unless the

season be very favourable, and the ground warm. As these Beans are apt to get rotten by cold and damp weather, let six or eight be planted half an inch deep round each pole, and afterwards thinned, leaving three or four good plants in a hill, which hills should be full four feet distance 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 natural 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 upwards, 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 în plenty of water until tender, which generally takes from fifteen to twenty minutes. Some cook the ripe Beans in winter, in which case they should be soaked in soft water for a few hours, and then put into the water cold, and boiled until tender, with a little salt; but salted meat being boiled with them answers the same purpose, and makes them sweeter and more wholesome. The mode of cooking the

other sorts, is the same as Kidney Dwarfs.