histoire :mazagan et économie 3

4 Janvier 2009 , Rédigé par saladin Publié dans #Histoire et socièté

vegetable, in which case they should be gathered whilst they are so crisp as to be readily snapped in two when See also:

bent; but when the dry seeds are to be used the pods should be allowed to ripen. As the green pods are gathered others will continue to be formed in abundance, but if old seed-forming pods are allowed to remain the formation of See also:

young ones will be greatly checked.

There are numerous varieties; among the best are See also:

CANADIAN

Canadian Wonder, See also:

Canterbury and Black See also:

NEGRO (from Lat. eager, black)

Negro. Phaseolus multiflorus, See also:

SCARLET

scarlet runner, is nearly allied to P. vulgaris, of which it is sometimes regarded as a variety, but differs in its climbing See also:

HABIT (through the French from Lat. habitus, from habere, to have, hold, or, in a reflective sense, to be in a certain condition; in many of the English senses the French use habitude, not habit)

habit. It is naturally perennial and has a thick fleshy See also:

root, but is grown in Great Britain as a tender annual. Its See also:

bright, generally scarlet See also:

FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

flowers, arranged in long racemes, and the fact that it will flourish in any ordinary good garden soil, combine to make it a favourite garden plant.. It is also of See also:

INTEREST

interest as being one of the few plants that twine in a direction contrary to the apparent See also:

motion of the See also:

sun. The seeds of the runner beans should be sown in an open See also:

plot,?the first sowing in May, another at the beginning of June, and a third about the middle of June. In the See also:

LONDON

London See also:

MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market-gardens they are sown 8 to 12 in. apart, in 4 ft. rows if the soil is good. The See also:

TWINING, THOMAS (1735-1804)

twining tops are pinched or cut off when the plants are from 2 to 22 ft. high, to See also:

SAVE, or SAVA (Ger. Sau; Hungarian Szdva; Lat. Savus)

save the expense of staking. It is better, however, in private gardens to have the rows See also:

STANDING

standing separately, and to support the plants by stakes 6 or 7 ft. high and about a See also:

FOOT

foot apart, the tops of the stakes being crossed about one-third down. If the See also:

WEATHER (O. Eng. weder; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Du. weder, Dan. veir, Icel. ve8r, and Ger. Wetter and Gewitter, storm; the root is wa- to blow, from which is derived " wind ")

weather is dry

If the See also:

WEATHER (O. Eng. weder; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Du. weder, Dan. veir, Icel. ve8r, and Ger. Wetter and Gewitter, storm; the root is wa- to blow, from which is derived " wind ")

weather is dry when the pods are forming abundantly, plenty of tepid water should be supplied to the plants. In training the shoots to their supports, they should be twined from right to left, contrary to the course of the sun, or they will not See also:

lay hold. By frequently picking the pods the plants are encouraged to form fresh blooms from which pods may be picked until the approach of See also:

frost. The ordinary scarlet runner is most commonly grown, but there is a See also:

white-flowered variety which has also white seeds; this is very prolific and of excellent quality. Another variety called Painted See also:

LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

Lady, with the flowers red and white, is very ornamental, but not so productive. Carter's See also:

CHAMPION (Fr. champion, Late Lat. campio from campus; a field or open space, i.e. one " who takes the field " or fights; cf. Ger. Kampf, battle, and Kampfer, fighter)

Champion is a large-podded productive variety. Another species P. lunatus, the See also:

LIMA

Lima bean, a tall biennial with a See also:

SCIMITAR

scimitar-shaped pod (whence the specific name) 2 to 3 in. long containing a few large seeds, is widely cultivated in the warmer-parts of the world. The young pods of another leguminous climbing See also:

HERB (Lat. herba, grass, food for cattle, generally taken to represent the Old Lat. forbea, Gr. 4op(3i1, pasture, <0p/3Ew, to feed, Sans. bharb, to eat)

herb, Dolichos Lablab, as well as the seeds, are widely used in the tropics, as we use the kidney bean. The plant is probably a native of tropical Africa, but is now generally cultivated in the tropics. The word Dolichos is of See also:

Greek origin, and was used by See also:

THEOPHRASTUS

Theophrastus for the scarlet runner. Another species, D. biflorus, is the horse See also:

GRAM

gram, the seed of which is eaten by the poorer class of natives in India, and is also, as are the pods, a food for horses and See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle. The Soy bean, Glycine hispida, was included by See also:

LINNAEUS

Linnaeus in the genus Dolichos. It is extensive
It is extensively cultivated in China and Japan, chiefly for the pleasant-flavoured seed from which is prepared a piquant See also:

SAUCE

sauce. It is also widely grown in India, where the bean is eaten, while the plant forms a valuable fodder; it is cultivated for the latter purpose in the See also:

UNITED

United States. Other references to beans will be found under See also:

SPECIAL

special headings, such as See also:

CALABAR (or OLD CALABAR)

CALABAR BEAN, See also:

LOCUST

LOCUST-See also:

TREE. There are also several non-leguminous seeds to which the popular name bean is attached. Among these may be mentioned the sacred See also:

EGYPTIAN

Egyptian or See also:

PYTHAGOREAN

Pythagorean bean (Nelumbium speciosum), and the See also:

IGNATIUS ('Iyvfrior)

Ignatius bean (probably Strychnos multi See also:

FLORA

flora), a source of See also:

STRYCHNINE

strychnine. The ancient Greeks and See also:

Romans made useof beans in gathering the votes of the See also:

PEOPLE

people, and for the See also:

election of magistrates. A white bean signified See also:

ABSOLUTION (Lat. absolutio from absolvo, loosen, acquit)

absolution, and a black one condemnation. Beans had a mysterious use in the lemuralia and parentalia, where the See also:

MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master of the family, after washing his hands three times, threw black beans over his See also:

head nine times, reiterating the words " I redeem myself and my family by these beans." BEAN-FEAST, primarily an annual See also:

DINNER

dinner given by an employer to his workpeople, and then colloquially any jollification. The phrase is variously derived. The most probable theory is that which connects it with the See also: