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Names and Sorts. 

 Pastinaca sativa, parsnep — common garden 

 parsnep. 



Phaseolus vulgaris, common kidney-bean — 

 dwarfs and runners. Dwarf kinds— early white — 

 early yellow — liver-coloured— speckled dwarf— - 

 Canterbury white dwarf— Battersea white dwarf 



large white dwarf — cream-coloured dwarf — ■ 



black dwarf— sparrow-egg dwarf— amber-spec- 

 kled dwarf. 



Running kinds — scarlet runner — white variety 

 —large Dutch runner — Battersea white runner — 

 negro runner — variable runner. 



Pisum, the pea — Charlton pea — golden Charl- 

 ton — earliest golden Charlton — long Reading 

 hotspur — Masters' hotspur — Spanish morotto — 

 green nonpareil — early dwarf marrowfat — large 

 marrowfat — green rouncival, or union — white 

 rouncival— Ledman's 'dwarf pea— small sugar 

 pea — large sugar pea — cluster pea — crown pea 

 — esjg-pea — sickle pea, &c. 



Portulaca oleracea, purslane — green purslane 

 rslane. 



-common gar- 

 den burnet. 



Raphanus sativus, the radish — short-topped 

 early radish — long-topped radish — deep-red ra- 

 dish — pale-red, transparent, mild radish — sal- 

 mon-coloured radish — small white turnip-rooted 

 radish — small red turnip radish — large, white, 

 turnip-rooted Spanish radish — large, black, tur- 

 nip-rooted Spanish radish. 



Rosmarinus, rosemary — some varieties. 



Rumex acetosa, sorrel — common long-leaved 

 sorrel — round-leaved French sorrel — barren sor- 

 rel. 



Ruta graveolens, rue ; several varieties. 



Salvia, sage, clary, &c. 

 common sage — red 

 sage — narrow-leaved 

 hoary sage — sage of virtue — wormwood sage, &c. 



Clary. 



Satureja, savory — winter perennial savory 

 summer annual savory. 



Scandix Cerefolium, chervil — annual 

 chervil. 



Modes op Culture. 



By seed sown annually, in spring, for winter 

 use. 



By seed sown annually, at different times 

 from April till July or the following month. 



By sowing the seed like the former, but prin- 

 cipally in the summer months. 



By seed sown annually, at different times from 

 October till June, but principally in the early 

 spring months. 



— golden pursli 



Poierhim Sanguisorba, burnet- 



The sorts are — 

 sage — broad -leaved green 

 green sa^e — broad-leaved 



garden 



By seed sown at different times in April and 

 May. 



By seed sown in autumn or spring, and part- 

 ing the roots. 



By seed sown at different times from Christ- 

 mas till July or August; but the latter sorts 

 sown principally in June and July, for autumn 

 and winter use. 



By planting layers, slips, and cuttings, in 

 spring. 



By parting the roots, and the first sort also 

 plentifully by seed. 



By planting slips and cuttings ; also by seed. 

 By planting slips, hi April, May, and June; 

 also by sowing the seed in the spring season. 



Scorzonera, scorzonera — Spanish scorzonera. 



Si/iupis, mustard — white mustard — black 

 mustard — field or wild mustard ; the former to 

 use young in sallad, and the two last for their 

 seed's, to make the table sauce called mustard. 



Slum sisarum, sisarum or skirret. 



Smyrnium Olusalnun, Alisandcrs, or com- 

 mou Alexanders, 



By seed sown annually in the spring. 



Both by seed sown in the spring season, and 

 the former also by planting slips. 



By seed annually, in August, for winter and 

 spring use, or sown also in spring and summer, 

 for succession crops. 



An eatable root, raised from seed sown in spring. 



By seed in spring; or, if for sallads, at any 

 time of the. year. 



An eatable root, raised by planting offsets 

 commonly, of the root, also by seeds. 

 By seed annually in spring. 



