2tf* OF HERBS, &CV SECT. XVi; 



weak. A frefii, but poor, foil, is better than a rich 

 one, which makes them too rampant, and lefs fruitful. 

 See Lift S,.Se£c. 19, and Obfervation. 



TUc double ncjlurtium, is confulercd merely as a fine 

 flower, but they are a beautiful garni fh. It grows from- 

 cuttings: Plant thefe in pots, in June, and place them 

 on a little heat, and they will foon take root. Or if 

 the pots are plunged in a warm border, and covered 

 cloje with a handglafs . it may be fufficient. Gently 

 water them when, the mould gets quite dry. This 

 plant is tender, in winter requiring a ftove; yet it 

 ilourifhes all fumrner in open ground, flowering moll in 

 a poor foil. 



Parsley we have a plain and a curled kind of; and 

 though the former is moftly ufed, yet the latter is 

 equally proper as ^pot-herb, and it makes a good garnijh; 

 hemlock cannot be miftaken for it, as- for the- plain fome- 

 times it has been. There is, however, more ofeffence 

 in an equal quantity of the plain, than of the curled; 

 hut it. is only ufing rather more of the latter, which, i£ 

 not fuffe.ed to feed, will Iluid three years. To produce 

 the curled fort very fine, ( 3- to* garni Hi) the plants 

 mould be thinned to three or tour inches afundcr ; and 

 it may be own either at broad call, .of in drills about 

 nine incaes afunder, as the common fort is. Parfley is 

 fometimes fown early in autumn, to have it young for 

 the winter and fpring; but the ufual time is early in. 

 i'pring, and one lowing may be fufhcient for the- year: 

 Gut it down often to get rid of the old, and young will 

 fpring .up. Cutting down parfley mould never be ■ 

 omitted about the end of SeptemJ?er, that it may be had 

 good through the winter ami fpring. This herb will ' 

 bear tranfplanting. For Hamburg parfley, fcep.irf/ey 

 in the laft feQion, p. 23Q. 



Penny-royal is -a pot and medical herb of the 

 mint fpices. There is an upright and a trailing fort of 

 it; but the latter is that chiefly ufed: This is propa- 

 gated by rooted branches, of winch it affords plenty, 



