Plants, which in a Rod amounts to four hundred and seventy fix Plants.

I have obferv'd feveral Parcels of Beans this Year, of the Broad or Windfor Kind, and I find that they are very inconftant in their Bearing, fome Plants bringing five and twenty Cods, others eight or nine only: So that, were I to make a moderate Computation, one would fuppose every Plant could hardly bear lefs than ten Cods, reckoning one with another; and in fome of thefe Cods it is not very rare to find three Beans, tho' more generally two, but for the most part but one Bean in a Cod: However, to judge as low as poffible, I fhall only reckon that a Plant will bring ten pure Beans clear of the Cods, tho' I have number'd above twenty Bloffoms upon a Plant.

In the Measure of the Broad Beans, when they are taken out of the Cods, I find that Fifty Beans fill a Winchester Pint Strike-Measure; fo that then we may expect from a Rod thus planted, about forty feven Quarts of Beans StrikeMeasure, or fomewhat lefs than ten Gallons Heapt-Measure. We may remark, that if we were to fet the Beans nearer together, they would bear lefs Fruit: However, at the Rate I fet down, we may fuppofe that three Rods will produce about thirty Gallons of Broad Beans, clear of their Shells; but this muft be while they are fit for eating, for when they dry, they will lofe above two third parts of their Measure; that is, a Winchester Pint, Strike-Meafure, will hold about One hundred and fifty Beans, fo that a Rod will take about three Pints of dry Beans to plant it.

The Spanish Bean is of a much smaller Kind than the former, but is a great Bearer, fo as

to bring, on every Plant, twice the Number of Beans generally found on the Windfor Kind. One of the Spanish Beans is about one third Part as big as a Windfor-Bean; fo that I compute, that a Rod of the Spanish-Bean, will yield about fix Gallons, or about two third Parts as much in Measure, as a Rod of Ground planted with Windfor-Beans; and thofe among the Afparagus-Beds, will yield as many more, and efpecially because these Plants have more Air. So we may compute the whole to amount to about twelve Gallons, which will very well afford us good part of fixty Days Diet, befides fome Dishes from After-Crops: While we have thefe in Ufe, let us fpare thofe Roots and Herbs which will hold good in that Seafon. The proper Directions for managing these Crops, I have laid down in my New Improvements.

Ground for Peafe, eight Rods.

I have obferved in my Introduction to this Letter, that the Pea requires more Room than any other Thing in a Garden, and have given fome Reasons why it does fo; therefore I allow in this Garden, eight Rods of Ground for Peafe, befides the Advantage we may have of fhifting the Peafe in the Ground I allow for Carrots, which is three Rods, fo as to fet an early Crop of Pease upon it; for the Carrots must be taken out of the Ground when they have done growing, and laid by in dry Sand. So then we hall have eleven Rods of Ground for Pease, befides a Row, if we pleafe, clofe under a South Wall to be stick'd up: Though they will not rife very high, yet they will bear better, and ripen fooner, than if they were to lie upon the Ground.

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But fuppofe we begin with the Carrot-Piece, for an early Crop of Peafe; fow the Lines double and the Pease four or five Inches apart, and the Lines about ten Inches afunder to be staked up; but the Alleys between the double Lines, must be about two Foot Wide, fo that we may have fix double Rows in a Rod, or in three Rods, about eighteen double Rows, or fixteen Foot and a half long. Now were all these Pease to ftand the Weather, which is very doubtful, if we put them in before the End of November, then there would be about One hundred Plants in a double Row; and a fingle Plant of this fort will bear, if it be stick'd up, about twenty Cods, which will carry from about five to feven Pease apiece, and thofe Peafe, when they are about the bigness of the following Letter, will fill a Strike Quarter of a Pint, Wine-Meafure, from One hundred Cods; that is a Pint from Four hundred Cods, or a Quart from Eight hundred Cods; fo that we must have Forty Plants, to produce a Quart of Pease for the Table, of the Bigness I mention; or if we allow for Hazards, and fuppofe Fifty Plants to yield a Quart, then a double Row of Plants will yield about two Quarts; and the three Rods of Pease, or the eighteen double Rows, will yield Thirty-fix Quarts, or nine Gallons, Strike Wine-Measure: But if we measure them by the heap'd Winchester-Quart, and allow for the Lofs of those which will grow too old for eating green, we cannot well reckon above five Gallons of clear green Pease for the Use of the Table; fo that we may have about a Dozen or Fifteen good Dishes of Pease from this Parcel.

The other Ground we allot for Pease, which is eight Rods, fhould be divided into three Parcels, viz. Three Rods for the Sugar-Pea, to be fown in February, after the manner of the former, which will follow the earliest Crop in ripening, and yield about five Gallons of clear Peafe, Winchester-Meafure, befides feveral Quarts for Seed or Winter Ufe; though it is customary to fow them in fingle Rows, and then the Alleys between the Lines, must be about two Foot and a half afunder.

We are next to fow three Rods of large Peafe, fuch as the Spanish-Mooretto, or the Rounceval or Dutch Admirals. Thefe must be planted in double Rows in April, the Lines of Peafe to be a Foot apart, and we must allow half a Foot on the outfide of every double Line, to place our Stakes, which Stakes must be bufhy, fuch as the Boughs which are generally cut for Bavins, called Brufh- Wood. The Stakes ought to be full feven Foot long, fo that they be allow'd above half a Foot to be in the Ground, and and that the two Lines be tyed together on the Top, fo as to be full fix Foot high. The Figure of this Staking, at the Ends of every douBle Row, will almoft reprefent the Letter [V] revers'd, and every double Row of Stakes will meafure near two Foot at the Bottom, Between every two double Rows of Stakes, we must leave a Paffage of four Foot wide, fo that then there will be about fix Foot from the Outfide of the firft double Row, to the fecond double Row. So in three Rods we may have five double Rows of thefe Peafe about Thirty-three Foot long each. By this means, if they are ftaked early enough, and water'd in a dry Time, and, above all, carefully gather'd, or as I ufed

to direct, i. e. To cut off the Peafe with Sciffars; after this manner, they will last bearing a long Time, and produce near twice as many Peafe, as thofe that are order'd the common Way. About fifty Cods will yield of clear Peafe, as many as will fill a Quarter of a Pint, Strike WineMeafure; or Four hundred Cods will yield a good Wine-Quart; and a Plant preferv'd in Health, will bear about thirty Cods: But fuppofing them to bear only twenty Cods apiece, then a double Row of Thirty-three Foot long, allowing the Peafe to ftand at least fix Inches apart, will yield, when they are taken out of the Shells or Cods, about seven or eight Quarts, and the whole about Thirty-five Quarts, or fomewhat more than nine Gallons, Strike Wine-Meafure, or for eating Green, about fix Gallons, Winchester, Measure.

There remain yet two Rods to be fown with the fame fort of Pea in May, for a late Crop, which will afford us above four Gallons of clear Peafe, Winchester-Measure: So that the Produce of eleven Rods of Peafe, thus order'd, will be about Twenty one Gallons of clear green Peafe for eating, befides a good Quantity for Seed. Such a Quantity may ferve to afford us at leaft fifty large Meffes, to bé gather'd between May and the End of September; and if there fhould be more than we can difpenfe with while they are Green, we may ufe them dry in the Winter, for boiling; and the Rounceval Pea, especially is extreamly good. It would be well to plant one Rod of this Piece, with the fort of Pea which is common in Holland, call'd the Gour mand, or Glutton-Pea, which the People eat Shells and all, as we do Kidney-Beans.