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duce enough for a family that eats roast-beef every 

 day of their lives. You must take care that the 

 Horse -radish roots do not spread, and that bits of 

 them be not flung about the ground ; for, when 

 once in, no tillage will get them out. They must 

 be, like the Dock and Dandelion roots, absolute- 

 ly burnt by Jire, or by a sun that will reduce 

 them to a state of a dry stick ; or must be taken 

 up and carried away ftom the spot. Though a 

 very valuable and wholesome article of diet, it 

 is a most jitrmti Us weed. 



226. HYSSOP is a sort of shrub, the flower- 

 spikes of which are used, fresh or dried, for 

 medicinal purposes. It is propagated from seed, 

 or fron. offsets. A very little of it is enough for 

 any garden. 



227. JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE. This 

 plant bears at the root, like a potatoe, which to 

 the great degradation of many of the human 

 race, is every where well known. But, this Ar- 

 tichoke, which is also dug up and cooked like a po- 

 tat <, has, at any rate, the merit of giving no 

 trouble either in the propagation or the cultiva- 

 tion. A handful of the bits of its fruit, or even 

 of i*:s roots, flung about a piece of ground of any 

 sort, will keep bearing forever, in spite of grass 

 and of weeds; the difficulty being, not to get it 

 to grow, but to get the ground free from it, when 

 once it has taken to growing. It is a very poor, 

 insipid vegetable ; but, if you wish to have it now 

 and then, the best way is to keep it out of the gar- 

 den ; arul lo dig up the corner of some field, and 

 throw some seed or some roots into it. 



228. LAVENDER. A beautiful little well- 

 known shrub of uses equally well known. Hun- 



