. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. io6 MV GARDEN. employed in the preparation of entrees and soups. It is worth consideration whether- such an industry might not be profitably undertaken in those parts of this country where land and labour are moderate in price, and where our cultivated peas so far excel the Continental varieties. Birds at times shell peas to a large extent. A visit of young jackdaws on a Sunday, when our garden is quiet, will clear a row of peas. The beautiful bullfinch is equally destr
. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. io6 MV GARDEN. employed in the preparation of entrees and soups. It is worth consideration whether- such an industry might not be profitably undertaken in those parts of this country where land and labour are moderate in price, and where our cultivated peas so far excel the Continental varieties. Birds at times shell peas to a large extent. A visit of young jackdaws on a Sunday, when our garden is quiet, will clear a row of peas. The beautiful bullfinch is equally destructive. But the greatest enemy to the pea is the pea fungus, which will be described hereafter. The Bean {Faba vulgaris, fig. 148) is a vegetal highly esteemed by some persons, but it is inferior to the pea, which it resembles in the amount of nitrogenous matter in its composition, and in the high pro- portion of phosphates which is con- tained in the ash. In Italy it appears to be used even to a greater extent than in England, although the dish of beans and bacon is never omitted from a feast in June in London. Horace enjoyed them nearly two thousand years ago—. Fig. 148.—Early Mazagau Bean, J diam. " O quando faba Pythagorae cognata, simulque Uncta satis pingui ponentur oluscula lardo ?"—ScUira vi. Beans are sown about three inches apart in drills about three inches deep, in the month of December, for the first crop of the next year. These bear in June, and by successive sowings in January, February, and March, the season may be maintained till autumn. We sow the Mazagan (fig. 148) in December, and the Long Pod or Green Long Pod in spring. There are many other varieties which we occasionally grow, but these are the principal ones in use at my garden. A bean, to my taste, should be quickly grown, and little larger than a marrow- fat pea to be in perfection, for if it be larger and harder there are not many persons who can readily digest them. Beans are sometime
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