264 OF HERBS, &C. SECT. XVI. 



or April, and may be pricked out in small pots, but 

 will hardly endure the open air till June. The large 

 is the hardiest, and will come up on cold ground, but 

 come backward. They like a rich soil, and the bush 

 sort does best in one having half dung in it well 

 mixt. 



BORAGE is a cordial herb, that has its varieties, 

 blue, red, and white flowered, and one with variegated 

 leaves ; but the former is that commonly cultivated 

 as a pot-herb, and its flowers for sallads, and cool 

 tankards. To have it young all the year, let it be 

 sown in spring, summer, and autumn, either in 

 drills, or broad cat. Thin the plants to nine inches 

 Asunder. It sows itself in autumn, and likes a dry 

 sojj. 



BUGLOS.S possesses the like cordial virtues with 

 borage, so that the one may be substituted for the 

 Other. Culture is the same as borage. 



BURNET is a warm perennial sallad herb, used also 

 in cool tankards, propagated in spripg, or autumn, 

 either by seed, or parting its roots, and planting them 

 a foot asunder. Keep it frequently cut down, that it 

 may constantly furnish young shoots for use. 



CAMOMILE is a useful medicinal herb, of which 

 we have single and double flowering kinds ; and of 

 the latter, a sort with very full flowers. It is propa- 

 gated by parting its roots, or by its runners, in 

 jharch, or April, setting them nine or ten inches 

 asunder. Gather the flowers in their prime, (as 

 those of all plants should be) before they begin to 

 fade ; dry them thinly in the shade for a few days, 

 and preserve them from damp in paper bags. The 

 single sort has the strongest flavour, though for quan- 

 tity, the double is mostly cultivated : Camomile likes 

 a poor soil. 



CAPSICUM is sometimes raised for its young pods 

 Jo pickle ; being sown on a gentle hot-bed, and brought 



