SECT. XVI. OF HERBS, &C. 271 



or they will be drawn up weak. A fresh, but poor, 

 soil, is better than a rich one, which makes them too 

 rampant, and less fruitful. See List 8, Sect. 19, and 

 Observation, 



The double nasturtium is considered merely as a 

 fine flower, but they are a beautiful garnish. It 

 grows from cuttings : Plant these in pots, in June, 

 and place them on a little heat, and they will soon 

 take root. Or if the pots are plunged in a warm 

 border, and covered close with a handglass, it may 

 be sufficient. Gently water them when the mould 

 gets quite dry. This plant is tender, in winter pro- 

 perly requiring a stove ; yet it flourishes all summer 

 in open ground, flowering most in a poor soil. A 

 greenhouse may keep it; but a South window in a 

 warm parlour does better. 



PAUSLEY we have a. plain and & curled kind of; 

 and though the former is mostly used, yet the latter 

 is equally proper as a pot-herb, and it makes a good 

 garnish : hemlock cannot, be mistaken for it, as for 

 the plain sometimes it has been. There is more of 

 essence in the plain than the curled ; but this if not 

 Suffered to seed, will"stand three years. To produce 

 the curled sort very fine, (as for garnish) the plants 

 should be thinned to three or four inches asunder ; 

 and it may be sown either at broad cast, or in drills 

 about nine inches asunder, as the common sort is. 

 Parsley is sometimes sown early in autumn, to hfrve 

 it young for the winter and spring; but the usual 

 time is early in spring, and one sowing may be suffi- 

 cient for the year: Cut it down often to get rid of 

 the old leaves and young will spring up. Cutting 

 down parsley should never be omitted about the end 

 of September, that it may be had good through the 

 winter and spring. This herb will bear transplant- 

 ing. For Hamburgh parsley, see parsley in the last 

 section, p. 245. 



