B E A N S.

[clannoard bean; windsor bean; crambury bean; frost bean; six weeks bean; lazy bean; english bean; horse bean; small white bean; calivanse] 



The Clabboard Bean, is easiest cultivated and collected, are good for string beans, will shell--must be poled.
  
The Windsor Bean, is an earlier, good string, or shell Bean.

Crambury Bean, is rich, but not universally approved equal to the other two.

Frost Bean, is good only to shell.

 Six Weeks Bean, is a yellowish Bean, and early brought forward, and tolerable.

Lazy Bean, is tough, and needs no pole.

English Bean what they denominate the Horse Bean, is mealy when young, is profitable, easily cultivated, and may be grown on worn out grounds; as they may be raised by boys, I cannot but recommend the more extensive cultivation of them.

The Small White Bean, is best for winter use, and excellent.

Calivanse, are run out, a yellow small bush, a black speck or eye, are tough and tasteless, and little worth in cookery, and scarcely bear exportation


American Cookery
Amelia Simmons
1798

Northampton
Massachusetts

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