OF HERBS, &C. SECT. XVI. 



the last crop in June must be in a like situation, 

 and will not be ready before winter ; at the approach 

 of which, protect it from frost with dry litter. 



HYSSOP is used sometimes in a culinary, but more 

 in a medicinal way. There are white, blue, and red 

 flowered sorts of it : but the blue spiked is that com- 

 monly cultivated. The parts for culinary purposes 

 are the leaves, and young shoots ; and the flower 

 spikes are cut, dried, and preserved for medical uses, 

 for which it is an excellent herb. As hyssop is a 

 woody evergreen perennial, growing about a foot 

 high, it may be planted for an edging of the kitchen 

 garden. It is propagated by seed, and rooted slips, 

 in March, by cuttings in April, or young slips in 

 June, or July. A poor dry, or sandy soil, best suits 

 it The plants may be nine inches or a foot asunder 

 as an edging, but should be near two feet from one 

 another in a medicinal bed, as they soon get large, 

 and stand years. 



LAVENDER (the common) is, for its pleasant aro- 

 matic scent, found in most gardens, and makes a 

 neat perennial edging in large ones. It is propagated 

 by cuttings, or young slips, in April and May, set a 

 few inches asunder, in a shady situation, and good 

 soil ; and when rooted, planted out where they are 

 to grow. The slips should be occasionally watered, 

 and as a mat would cover a great many, might be 

 shaded when the sun is hot upon them, for a fort- 

 night or three weeks, to forward their rooting. But 

 though raised in a good soil lavender likes a poor and 

 dry one best to abide in. Set the plants at a foot dis- 

 tance from one another. In a rich moist soil, they 

 are apt to die in the winter ; but in a dry hungry one, 

 they rarely do. All plants the more luxuriantly they 

 grow, the more likely they are to be cut off by severe 

 weather. 



MARIGOLD has its varieties, and some sorts bear 



