£££ OF HERBS, &C. SECT. XVI. 



more luxuriantly they grow, the more likely they are 

 to be cut off by fevere weather. 



Marigold has its varieties-, and fome forts bear 

 very fine double flowers; but the common (ingle kind 

 as belt as a pot-herb, being molt aromatic. All fingh 

 lowers are preferable to the double of the fame kind 

 for medicinal, or other ufes, as po (Telling a itronger 

 eiTence. Sow marigolds in fpring, and let plants of 

 the (ingle fort (land a foot afunder, but the large double 

 wider. They will grow in any foil, and are in flower 

 moll part of the year. The time of gathering them for 

 drying is towards autumn, when they are mod plentiful. 

 Take care that they are not put up in their paper bags 

 Yaw, or damp, and keep them in a very dry place. 

 This flower is a valuable ingredient in broths and 

 foups, however it may have got into difufe. It fows 

 itfelf abundantly, and will bear tranfplanting about 

 May, fo that there will feldom be occafion to fow. 



Marjoram is diftinguifhed into pot, winter, and 

 'knotted forts ; the two former perennial, and the lad 

 annual. They are all occaflonally ufed for culinary 

 purpofes, but the knotted w chiefly cultivated as a 

 fweet companion of our flowers. The propagation of it 

 is by parting the roots of the perennial forts in autumns 

 or fpring, and by fowing the annual kind in March, or 

 April, on a warm border, and light dry foil. The 

 annual fort mould (land at fix inches diifance, and the 

 perennial at nine 01 ten. The knotted fort, if planted 

 in pots, and houfed, may be preferved in the winter, 

 cutting down the flower items. This kind is fome- 

 times ufed tor medicinal purpofes, and fhould be drawn 

 tip by*ihe roots, for drying in the (hade; or at lead with 

 but little fun. 



Mint is a falutary herb, of which we have two 

 forts, the /pear and the pepper ; the former for culi- 

 nary, and the latter for medicinal purpofes. There is a 

 little variety in tiie /pear, as broader and narrower 



leaved. 



