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winter u<c, as about July and August ; but for 

 the niai-vgoki, chanio.iiik' fii)-.vcrs, aiul those of 

 laveiult.T,^!s u!.'!l ;is sasic tops, inarjoiMm, hyssop, 

 ami such likf, w-hich often staiul the winter, au- 

 tumn may be better, as tliey will then be ready, 

 ill case of a severe winter. Parsley generally 

 furnishes proper supplies of green leaves all the 

 year; basil and dill onlv in summer; chervil and 

 coriander, principally in summer and autunm, 

 of the sprint"- and sunnncr sowings; or if some 

 of each be also sown in August, they will con- 

 tinue creen all winter: but the coriander re- 

 quires "ii little protection in that season ; and the 

 caravvay, anise, and angelica, eontiiuie only in 

 summer and autunm. 



In the cidture of these plants, the perennial 

 sorts, beinir planted in beds or borders, contmue 

 there, as just observed, several years, and only 

 require to be kept clean from weeds in sunmier 

 and autumn, and to be cut down, and the de- 

 cayed stalks removed at the latter season ; and 

 in spring to give the beds, Sec. a- neat dressing, 

 by ejearmg them of all weeds and litter, and 

 then loosening the ground a little between the 

 plants; and in some of the close running kinds, 

 as the mints, &c.,to spread some earth thinly over 

 the general surface about them. When any par- 

 ticular sorts appear m a declining state, fresh pl.ui- 

 tatious should be made in the proper season. 



As to the annual sorts, they only require to be 

 kept clean from weeds during their growth and 

 continuance, and that fresh supplies be raised 

 every vear from seed. 



Airi'lCMISIA, a genus eotnprising many per- 

 ennial lierbaceous and shrubby plants of the 

 AJuTWort, W^ormwood, and Southernwood 

 kinds. 



It belongs to the class and order Si/iiL;c!h;.siii 

 Pohj<;.'itii(i yE'jiia/is, and ranks in the natural 

 order of Cnviposilce Nucunwnlacccc. 



The characters of which are : that the cab.x 

 is conmion roundish and imbricate : scales 

 rounded and converging : the corolla compound : 

 eorollules hermaphrodite, tubidar, several, in 

 the disk : females almost naked, in the circum- 

 ference : proper of the lu-rmaphrodile funnel- 

 shaped : border five-eleit : the stamina in the 

 hermaphrodites have capillary filaments, very 

 short : the anthera cvlindric, tubular, live- 

 toothed : the pistilluin in the hermaphrodiies a 

 small uerm : style til'lonn, ihe length of the 

 stamina: stigma bifid and revokite : in the fe- 

 males the germ very small ; style liliform, longer 

 than in the hermaphrodites: the stigma sinnlar: 

 no periearpiuiu : the calyx scarcely chaiiged : 

 the seeili solitary and naked : the receptacle (lat, 

 naked, or villosc. 



'i he species most cukivaled are ; \. A, Abiln- 

 1 



<///'///)/, Common Wormwood; £?. ^.nrlorescens, 

 Narrow-leaved I'ree W^ormw ood ; .3. A. argc/'lca, 

 Broad-leaved Tree Wormwood; 4. A. AlT<ita~ 

 iiinii. Southernwood; 5. yl. 5fl«/(»»'(:f/, Tartarian 

 Southei-nwood ; 6. A. Dnici/ricii/.'/s, Tarragon. 



The first has a perennial branching root : the. 

 stems from a foot and half to two feet and up- 

 wards in height, upright, grooved, whitish with 

 a very short nap, especially towards the top, 

 branched, the branches making half a right 

 aii'ile with the stem : the leaves are petioled, 

 piunate-multilid, jiinnas alternate (five to seven), 

 the subdivisions, especially of the lower leaves, 

 ^^ ide, irregular and uiicqual, the extreme seg- 

 ments blunt ; thev arc tomentosc on both sides, 

 and very soft ; the xoung ones silvery white, but 

 as thev advance the whiteness wears off till they 

 become green to the eye on the ujiper surface ; 

 the lower leaves arc on very long angular pe- 

 tioles, deeply channcilcd above : the leaflets are 

 decurrent aloiij;; the partial foot-stalks : on the 

 stem-leaves they are narrower, and retain their 

 whiteness longer : the uppermost leaves among 

 the flowers are trifid or even simple, sessile and 

 bluntlv lanceolate : the flowers are in racemes, 

 continued half the length of the stem, eacli 

 from the axil of a leaf, directed one way, nod- 

 dinsi : the calyx hemispherical, with scales 

 bluntly ovate, very tomcntose, having membra- 

 naceous edges : florets fifty and upwards in a 

 single flower, dusky yellow, scarcely longer 

 than the calyx ; w ith about fifteen naked female 

 florets in the circumference : the seeds are 

 small, ovate, oblong, pale and naked : the re- 

 eeplacle ilattish, covered with white s>lkv villosc 

 hairs, shorter than the calvx. It lluwers from 

 July to October. 



The second species rises with a w'oody stalk 

 six or seven feet high, sending out many woody 

 branches, with leaves somewhat like those of 

 Common Wormwood, but more iim !y divided, 

 and much whiter: the branches arc. terminated 

 by spikes of globular flowers in tlie autumn, but 

 are seldom followed by seeds here. It is a native 

 of the Levant. 



In the third the whole plant is of a silvery co- 

 lour : the receptacle is villosc. It is a native of 

 Madeira, and flowers in June and July. 



The fourth species is an under-shrub seldom 

 rising more than three or four ieet liigh : the 

 leaves are alternate, jietioled, multiiid ; leaflets 

 lineal', very narrow, pale green, tomcnlose-sca- 

 brous ; less divided towards the top, till they be- 

 come trilid and even linear next the flowers ; 

 which come forth in linear, upright racemes, or 

 spikes, from the axils at the extremities of the 

 branches, on one-flowered peduncles ; they are 

 small, abundant, nodding, and yellow ; but 



