74 OF HERBS, &C. SECT. XT I. 



distance, in some shady place. These, if they spin- 

 dle tall in the summer, should be pinched down (in 

 time) to about three inches, in order to form bushy 

 heads. They will be well rooted in August, when 

 they should be planted a foot asunder, in a sunny 

 s(nd sheltered situation, from the N. and E. that 

 they may stand severe winters, which they \\i\\ the 

 better do, if the soil is rather poor. 



SAMPHIRE is by some greatly esteemed for a 

 pickl?, using its leaves, which are sometimes added 

 to sallads, arid occasionally used medicinally. It is 

 perennial, and propagated by parting its roots, or 

 by seed sown in April; is somewhat tender, likes a 

 eool situation, but yet prefers a sandy, or a gra- 

 velly soil : Let it have plenty of water. Some have 

 found it to do best in pots, set for the morning sun 

 only. 



SAVORY we have a summer and a winter kind of; 

 the former is annual, and the latter perennial ; and 

 both are used as medicinal and culinary herbs, but 

 the summer sort is that mostly cultivated for medi- 

 cine. The annual is propagated from seed in March 

 or April) sown thin and shallow, in drills, eight or 

 nine inches asunder. The perennial is sometimes 

 propagated from seed, but more usually from rooted 

 .slips, or cuttings from the top, in spring, as also 

 from side slips. The annual sort should grow at six 

 inches distance in the drills, and the perennial be al- 

 lowed a foot. Summer savory, gathered for drying, 

 is best drawn up by the roots. 



SMALL AGE is a sort of wild parsley, found in 

 moist places, and was formerly much cultivated in 

 gardens, and used in soups and sallads, and medicine, 

 as a warm herb. Sow it in spring as parsley. 



SCURVY GRASS (the Dutch, or round leaved) is 

 sometimes cultivated in gardens for it* excellent medi- 



