SECT. XVIo Of HERBS, &C. 275 



cinal properties. Sow it in autumn, or spring, but 

 best early in the former. Though it will grow in any 

 soil, it should have a moist one. 



SORK.EL is an acid, perennial plant, much relished 

 by some as a sallad, often used as a pot-herb, and 

 sometimes as a medicinal one: Though found com- 

 mon enough in the fields, it is much improved by 

 garden culture. The round leaved sort, commonly 

 called the Roman, is reckoned the more grateful acid, 

 and encreases in the ground apace. Sorrel is gene- 

 rally propagated by parting its roots, either in spring 

 or autumn, and if propagated from seed, (which 

 produces the finest plants) it should be sown in 

 March. The plants of the common sorrel should 

 be six or eight inches asunder, and the other a foot, 

 or fifteen inches. Common sorrel likes a cool moist 

 soil, but the Roman a dry one. Cut it down at the 

 latter end of the year, and cover it over with a little 

 mould, first stirring the soil. 



SUCCORY is a sallad, pot, and medicinal herb, but 

 not much cultivated* To be good, it must be well 

 blanched as endive, of which it is a wild sort. Sow 

 it in March for autumn and winter use, 



TANSEY is a culinary and medicinal herb, of which, 

 besides the common, there are curled leaved, and 

 variegated sorts; but the former only is proper to be 

 used medicinally. It is perennial, and propagated 

 by rooted slips, in spring or autumn, set at eighteen 

 inches distance, in beds, four feet and a half widej 

 and will> grow in almost any soil or situation. 



TARRAGON is a perennial pot and sallad herb, 

 which is much admired by some, for its peculiar high 

 warm flavour. It is propagated sometimes from 

 seed, but mostly by rooted, or other slips, set in 

 spring, or autumn, at six or eight inches distance, 

 and may be by cuttings in the summer months. The 

 shoots die down towards winter, but the roots art 



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