#8 OF HERBS, &C. SECT. XVf, 



and the other a foot, or fifteen inches. Common forrel 

 likes a cool moift foil, but the Roman a dry one. Cut 

 it down at the latter end of the year, and cover it over 

 "with a little mould, firft fhirring the foil. 



Succory is a fallad, pot, and medicinal herb, but 

 not much cultivated. To be good, it muft be well 

 blanched as endive, of which it is a wild fort. Sow it 

 in March for autumn and winter ufe. 

 - Tansey is a culinary and medicinal 'herb, of which, 

 betides the common, there are curled leaved, and vari- 

 egated forts; but the former only is proper to be ufed 

 medicinally. It is perennial, and propagated by rooted 

 flip's, in fpring or autumn, fet at eighteen inches dif- 

 tance, in beds, four feet and a half wide ; and will grow 

 in any foil or fituation. 



Tarragon is a perennial pot and fallad herb, 

 "which is much admired by fome, for its peculiar high 

 ■warm flavour.. It is propagated fometimes from feed, 

 but moftly by rooted, or other flips, fet in fpring, or 

 autumn, at fix or eight inches diftance, and may be by 

 cuttings in the fummer months.. The moots die down 

 towards winter, but the roots are hardy, and increafe 

 apace. If wanted in winter, it may be dried a* other 

 herbs are, or forced as mint, in order to have ft green. 

 When the flems begin to run, cut them down, in order 

 to produce young f hoots, for the tender tops only are 

 to be ufed ; and that not too freely, as it is an herb that 

 heats much. 



Thyme is zpot-he?b, of which there are commonly 

 cultivated a broad and a narrow leaved fort, but the 

 former moftly. There is a fort called lemon thyme r 

 that is admired for its flavour, and another called Jihtr 

 thyme, which, with the Jlriped, are confidered rathe'r as 

 merely ornamental. It is heft to raife the common 

 forts from feed, though root branches, on account of 

 their trailing nature, may be ufually had from old plants. 

 Slips will giow, if fet in a light rich foil, in a (had/ 

 fituation, or kept moift by watering, Loofening the 



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