566 MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



hardy shrubs, by dividing the plants, but may be raised from 

 seeds or slips. The seeds are sown in April, in shallow 

 drills, and the seedlings afterwards transplanted to rows two 

 feet apart, and a foot from each other in the rows. 



Use. " An infusion of the leaves and tops of the Com- 

 mon Wormwood is used as a vermifuge, tonic, and sto- 

 machic, and the leaves are found to be beneficial to poultry." 

 Thomp. ' 



Most of the other species possess the same properties in a 

 greater or less degree, and are used for the same purposes. 



