from the beating rains, and nearly every bean came up nicely, while those covered with earth were almost a total failure.[1] 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 trollis, 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 mcrit. 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 Boots 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 cover the freshly planted beans in a wot 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 “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.
