Cultivation of Arabie Land.— Beans. 591

pofed by fome cultivators to afford a larger produce. The large ticks are the fort moftly grown in the county of Kent, where the bean hufbandry is praétifed to fome extent; but in Effex, where the fyitem of cultivating beans alfo pre- vails in a confiderable degree, the fmall ticks are held in the higheft eftimation, as on the ftrong lands of that diftrict they are moftly found to afford an abund- ant produce. And in the market this is the fort of. bean that generally fetches the beft price.

Some of the latter or garden kinds have lately been introduced into the field with confiderable advantage in particular diftritts. Of thefe the mazagan and Mumford, the long-pod, and the Windfor, are the forts that are in general culti- vated. The firft is an early kind that does not grow to any great height, feldom more than about two feet. The ftem is flender, but moftly well befet with pods, which contain beans of rather a finall fize. This fort of bean, from its not grow- ing tall, and having but a flender ftem, may probably be grown with profit on the lefs ftrong and heavy forts of ground. It has alfo the property of becoming ripe more early than any of the other garden beans. The Mumford bean is alfo proper on the fame fort of land. But the long-pod is of a much taller growth, and confiderably more ftrength of ftem; it confequently requires greater depth and ftrength of foil for its advantageous culture. It is a fort of bean that affords a large produce where the land is fuitable to its growth. The Windfor bean is of a ftill larger kind than the long-pod, the feed approaching to fomewhat the fquare form. It grows ftrong and tall like the long-pod kind, but feldom yields fo large a produce. Thefe large kinds of beans are rarely, however, cultivated in the field, except in the vicinity of large towns, where they can be fold in the pods green.

This is a fort of crop that may be cultivated with fuccefs, as has been feen, on almoft any of the ftronger kinds of moift foils. It thrives equally well in the {tiff clayey lands, and thofe of the firong loamy kinds. The ftaple of the lands, where bean crops fucceed to the greateft advantage, is generally of a good depth; as in fuch the roots are enabled to get down fo as to be capable of fupplying themfelves with a fuitable proportion of nourifhment, which cannot be the cafe where the ground has a thin ftaple.

Bean crops are grown after wheat and oats, as well as on fuch lands as have been newly broken up from the ftate of ley. On-the laft they may be culti- vated with great propriety and advantage where danger is apprehended of corn crops being injured by the attacks of the grub or other infegts. And, befides their utility in this way, they may be of great benefit in cafes where the fward is tough, by breaking down and reducing the parts of the foil, as well as«in