SECT. XVI* OF HERBS, &C. 24$ 



are propagated in autumn, or early in the fpring, by 

 planting five or fix of the little bulbs in a hole, an 

 inch deep, and eight afunder. A bed of them lafts three 

 or four years. 



Clary (the common garden) ranks as a medicinal 

 herb, but it is ufed alfo in foups, and is very odorous. 

 Sow it in fpring, and when two or three inches high,- 

 prick the plants out fifteen or eighteen inches afunder, 

 or thin them to this distance. It is biennial, and there- 

 fore mud be fown every year as parfley is. There are 

 forts of this plant cultivated for ornament, bearing 

 pretty flowers. See Lift of biennials. 



Coriander is occafionally ufed in foups and /allads, 

 for its peculiar high flavour; but moftly for medicinal 

 purpofes, which its feeds are ufed in. For culinary 

 ufes, fow it in April, and once a month, or oftener, 

 afterwards, in drills fix inches afunder, to have a fuc- 

 ceflion of young plants ; and make a principal fowing; 

 in Augujl, or September, on a warm border. Cover 

 fome of it with a frame, or it will die in hard weather, 

 If wanted early in the year, fow one hot-bed, in February 

 or March; or in this laft month under handglajjes. 



Corn Sallad (or lamb's lettuce J is a fmall, warm s 

 wholefome, hardy herb, and for winter and fpring ufe 

 mould be (own in Auguji and September, and again in 

 February and March, and once a month all fummer, 

 for it is to be eat quite young. The plants lhould- 

 grow about three inches diftance: Thisruftic vegetable 

 ufed to be much in requeft, though now rarely cultivated.- 



Cress, there are three forts of, plain, curled, and 

 broad leaved; the former of which is much ufed as a 

 Jalladherb, with mufiard, rape, radijh, &c. The curled 

 and broad leaved forts mould be thinned to half an 

 inch afunder; but the plain is to be fown thick. The 

 curled makes a pretty garnijh. In the cold months, 

 tnis fallad herb (as others) is fown on gentle hot -beds, 

 giving plenty of air ; and as the fpring gets up, on 

 warm borders, or under hand-glajfes. The London 

 M 5 market 



