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CORIANDER AND CHERVIL. 



Coriander and chervil may yet be sown, as directed on page 208, 

 which see. The latter particularly, is by many esteemed in salads 

 and soups. 



DRESSING, PLANTING, AND SOWING ARTICHOKES. 



In the early part of this month, if omitted in the last, you may 

 give a spring dressing to your artichokes, and it will be a very pro- 

 per time to make new plantations of that delicious vegetable, or to 

 sow the seed of it. For full instructions as to the performance of 

 all the above, see pages 211, 212, &c. 



CARDOONS AND ALEXANDERS. 



Cardoons and Alexanders may yet be sown, as directed on page 

 214. For their further culture, see June and July. 



PROPAGATING VARIOUS POT AND MEDICINAL HERBS. 



For the various kinds of pot and medicinal herbs, and the different 

 methods of propagating them, either of which will answer extremely 

 well in this month, but more particularly that of sowing the seeds, 

 see page 215, &c. 



DILL AND AZORIAN FENNEL. 



For an account of, and the method of propagating Dill and Fino- 

 chio or Azorian fennel, see page 216. 



HORSERADISH. 



Horseradish may now be planted with good success, but the ear- 

 lier in the month that it is done, the better. For the method of pro- 

 pagating it, see page 217. 



RHUBARB. 



For the general culture of rhubarb, see page 219. The seed, if 

 neglected to be sown in the former months, will still succeed, by 

 sowing it in the early part of this, but the plants from late sowings 

 particularly, will require to be shaded, when up, from too powerful 

 sunshine, till they have attained strength. 



In the first week of this month, it may be successfully propagated 

 by offsets from the root. 



JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE. 



Jerusalem artichokes may still be cultivated, as directed last month, 

 on page 222. 



