SECT. xvi. o HERBS, &c. 273 



leave the plants at four or five inches distance, for 

 autumn and winter use; and draw it young. 



ROCOMBOLE is a root much like garlick, produc- 

 ing small bulbs at head, as well as root: is chiefly 

 medicinal* The cloves may be planted in autumn or 

 spring, two inches deep, and four asunder. Treat 

 it as garlick, which see. It is sometimes used as a 

 mild substitute for garlick. The seeds are eatable 

 and to be used as well as the cloves. 



ROSEMARY we have the varieties, plain, silver, 

 and gold striped. The plain is a useful medicinal 

 herb, which should be found in every garden* It is 

 propagated by suckers, layers, slips, or cuttings, in 

 the spring^ setting the two last where they have not 

 much sun ; and when rooted, towards autumn, or in 

 the following spring, allot the young plants a station 

 rather warm, and sheltered, as it is apt to suffer, or 

 die, in severe winters, especially the variegated. 



RUE is a medical plant, propagated in spring, by 

 seed, slips, or cuttings. It stands many years, but 

 should be prevented seeding, and pruned down oc- 

 casionly, to keep it in a neat bushy trim, of mode- 

 rate height, and strong growth. 



SAGE there are several sorts of, but the common 

 red is that used chiefly for culinary purposes, and the 

 green both for these, and medicinally for tea, &c* 

 There is a narrow leaved green sort, called tea sage, 

 or sage of virtue ; but the broad leaved green is 

 reckoned by some better, not being so heating, and 

 unpleasant to the taste. The variegated sorts of sagg 

 are only considered as ornaments in the flower gar- 

 den, or shrubbery. Sage is propagated by slips or 

 cuttings of the last year's shoots, in April, May i or 

 October, chusing those that are short and strong; or 

 of the young shoots in the early part of summer, set 

 in to an inch from the top, and about four inche* 



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