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leaves roundish, thick, wooll3% liollowed like a ladle; they are like 

 those of common Marjoram, but of a thicker substance, and have 

 much the same scent: the tiowers arc produced in roundish spikes, 

 closely joined together at the top of the stalks, and at the end of the 

 small side branches; they are of a pale Hesh colour, peeping out of 

 their scaly coverings. It is a native of Egypt, flowering trorn June 

 to August. 



The sixth species is also a perennial plant: the stalks hairy, about 

 nine inches high, of a purplish colour, sending out small branches 

 from the sides by pairs: the leaves round, thick, woolly, very white; 

 the whole plant lias a piercing aromatic scent, and biting taste: the 

 flowers are collected in loose leaty heads of a purple colour, nodding, 

 and small. It is a native of the island of Candia, flowering from 

 June to August. 



Culture. — The four fust sorts may be readily increased by slips, 

 cuttings, and parting the roots, and in the first and third sorts also 

 by seeds. 



The seed should be procured fresh from the seed-shops, and be 

 sown in the early spring months, as March or the following month, 

 on a bed or border of good light mould, raking it in lighlly. When 

 the plants are up and have attained a few inches in growth, they 

 should be planted out during moist weather, in a warm dry situation, 

 in rows ten or twelve inches distant, to remain, water being given 

 occasionally till they become perfectly rooted. AVlien the plants 

 are designed for the borders or clumps, the seeds may be sown in 

 patches where the plants are to remain. 



The roots of the strongest plants may be parted so as to have 

 some root-fibres to each in the early autunm or spring season, and 

 be planted out in rows in the siune manner as those raised from seed; 

 having the same management afterwards till fresh looted. The slips 

 or cuttings of the branches should be taken off in (he summer, and 

 immediately planted out where the plants are to remain. 



All the sorts should be afterwards kept perfectly clean from 

 weeds during llir summer season, and in the autumn have the de- 

 cayed stalks cleared away, loosening the mould about the plants; 



