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earth under, and drawing it 'up about old plants one 

 year, will produce plenty of rooted branches the next. 

 The plants fhould grow at fix or eight inches diftance. 

 If propagated from feed, let it he fown thin in March, 

 and covered lightly. Slips are heft made in April. 

 This herb makes a neat edging when planted clofe. but 

 it is a great impoverimer of the ground. Keeo it low. 



ToMATUM or love apples, we have red, ivhite, and 

 yellow fruited ,* and of the red and yellow, a cberry-Jhaped 

 fort. The firft, or large red, is that commonly cul- 

 tiv-^tedy-and it ferves for ah ornament in the garden, as 

 well as of ufe for the table, in a pickle made of the green 

 fruit, and when red in foups, <8cc. It is alfo iorne- 

 times pickled when red, (i. e. ripe.) At the end of 

 March, or beginning of April, it mud. be fowil in a 

 moderate hot-bed; and being foon thinned, let the 

 plants grow two or three inches high, and be pricked 

 in f'mall pots, to turn into the cold ground towards the 

 end of May ; or if not long and weak, keep them under 

 cover a little longer. Give them a funny fituation 

 againft a wall, for regular and timely training, or fup- 

 port them by iticks. They take up much room, and 

 in rows mould be three yards aiunder. If planted out 

 upon holes of hot dung, it would help . their fpeedy 

 rooting, and forward them much for ripening their 

 fruit, which in bad "feafons they fometimes fail in. 

 They require much water in dry weather. 



Wormwood is a ufeful medicinal herb; and com- 

 mon as it is in many places, in others it is not to be 

 met with wild. Befides the common, there is a Roman 

 wormwood — both are efficacious ; fome preferring the 

 one, fome the other. They are commonly raifed from 

 flips and cuttings, in any of thefommer months, or from 

 feed fown infpring. 



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