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may be separated and planted for increase, in beds or borders, at 

 the distance of ten or twelve inches asunder ; this would have heen 

 better if done last month, but they will succeed any time in this, if 

 well watered immediately after planting, and repeated at intervals 

 for a few days. When the plants shoot- up to seed, cut them down 

 close, and a new crop of leaves will be produced : this may be re- 

 peated, from time to time, during the summer and autumn. 



Sowing Pot-herbs, &c. 



Common and curled parsley may now be sown, where it had 

 been omitted in the former months ; as may also, the seeds of 

 chervil, sweet basil, coriander, pot-marigold, borage and burnet ; 

 thyme, summer, and winter savory, sweet, and pot marjoram, to- 

 gether with many other sorts of p'ot, aromatic, or medicinal herbs ; 

 observing the same method as directed in page 199, which see. 

 All those, with every other kind necessary, should be sown as early 

 in the month as possible. 



Propagating Aromatic, Pot, and Medicinal Plants, by Cuttings and 



Slips, &c. 



You may yet, if attended to in the early part of this month, pro- 

 pagate the various kinds of pot, physical and aromatic plants, men- 

 tioned in page 198, and in like manner, as there directed ; but they 

 will now require to be frequently watered, and if shaded for some 

 time after planting, the better. 



Supporting Plants for Seed. 



Now support the stems or stalks of such plants as were planted 

 for seed. The onions and leeks, in particular, will require this 

 care ; for the stalks of these will be run up to a good height, 

 and if they^are not secured in due time, the winds and heavy rains 

 will break them down. 



The best method of supporting these plants is to drive some firm 

 stakes into the ground, along the rows, placing them about two or 

 three yards asunder : then let some thin long poles, or strong lines, 

 be fastened from stake to stake, close along each side of the seed- 

 stalks. 



Let the advancing stems of the different kinds of cabbages and 

 other tall growing plants, that are now shooting to seed, and are 

 subject to be borne down by wind, or wet, be likewise supported, by 

 placing stakes to them and tying them thereto securely ; or by any 

 other more convenient method. 



Cardoons. 



The cardoons which were sown in March or April, ought now 

 to be thinned, where they have risen too thick, that the plants may 

 have room to grow and get strength by next month, when they 

 should be planted, where they are to remain for'landing up to blanch. 



