266 OF HERBS, &C. SECT. xH 



CORIANDER is occasionally used in soups and sal- 

 lads, for its peculiar high flavour; but mostly for 

 medicinal purposes, from its seeds. For culinary uses, 

 sow it in April, and once a month, or oftener, after- 

 wards, in drills six inches asunder, to have a suc- 

 cession of young plants; and make a principal sow- 

 ing in August, or September, on a warm border. 

 Cover some of it with a frame, or it will die in hard 

 weather. If wanted early in the year, sow one hot- 

 bed, in February or March ; or in this month under 

 hand-glasses. 



CORN S ALL AD (or lamb's lettuce) is a small, 

 warm, wholesome, hardy herb, -and for winter and 

 spring use should be sown in August and September, 

 and again in February and March, and once a 

 month all summer, for it is to be eat quite young. 

 They are to grow about three inches distance: It 

 used to be much in request, though now rarely cul- 

 tivated. 



CRESS, there are three sorts o plain, curled, arrd 

 broad leaved ; the former of which is much used as 

 a sallad herb, with mustard, rape, raddish, &c. The 

 curled and broad leaved sorts should be thinned to 

 half an inch asunder ; but the plain is to be sown 

 thick. The curled makes a pretty garnish. In the 

 cold months, this sallad herb (as others) is sown on 

 gentle hot-beds, giving plenty of air ; and as the 

 spring gets up, on warm borders, or under hand- 

 glasses. The London market gardeners sow it just 

 within the glasses which cover their cauliflower plants, 

 &c. In summer it should be sown in shady cool 

 ground, and daily watered ; or it may be sown in 

 the most sunny situation, if hooped over, and shaded 

 with a mat. Break the moulds/foe, and draw level 

 shallow drills, and cover only a quarter of an inch. 

 It may, however, be sown at broad cast, the ground 

 being first raked very smooth, and the seed just co- 



