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a different direction each time, according as the wind may 

 serve. If gardeners who raise Radishes, Cabbage, and such 

 other vegetables as are subject to the attacks of insects, were to 

 pursue this course, they would save themselves from considera- 

 ble loss. 



When ashes and other dust is being scattered over Turnips, 

 the work should be done by a careful laborer, who will not 

 walk on the rows of young Turnips, and thus destroy hundreds 

 of plants where they are already standing too far apart. When 

 the seed is put in with a suitable seed-drill, the roller usually 

 marks the place where the young plants may be found. 



We have always found that unleached wood-ashes, sifted 

 thinly over the drills soon after the seed was put in, would 

 repel the Turnip-fly most effectually. As the fly is ready for 

 the young plants as soon as the first tender leaves appear, ashes 

 must be sowed before the Turnips have come up, or the crop 

 may be lost. A thin sprinkling is sufficient. If unleached 

 ashes be applied too abundantly, the alkali will destroy the 

 young plants as soon as sufficient moisture comes in contact 

 with the ashes to dissolve it. 



AROMATIC, POT, AND SWEET HERBS. 



GRAINES D'HERBES AROMATIQUES, ODORIFERANTES, ET A L'USAGB 

 DE LA CUISINE. 



Angelica, Garden, Angelica atropurpurea. 



Anise, Pimpinella anisum. 



Basil, Sweet, Ocymum basilicum. 



Borage, Borago officinalis. 



Buruet, Garden, Poterium sanguisorba. 



Caraway, Carum carui. 



Chervil, or Cicely the Sweet, Scandix odorata cerefolium. 



Clary, Salvia sclarea. 



Coriander, Coriandrum sativum. 



Dill, Anethum graveolens. 



Tennel, Common, Anethum fceniculum. 



