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263. SKIRRET is cultivated from its root, 

 which is used in soups. It may be raised from 

 seed, or from offsets. It is perennial, and a very 

 small patch may suffice. 



264. SORREL. This is no other than the 

 wild sorrel cultivated. It is propagated from 

 seed, or from offsets. It is perennial. The 

 French make large messes of it; but a foot square 

 may suffice for an American garden. 



265. SPINACH. Every one knows how good 

 and useful a plant this is. It is certainly pre- 

 ferable to any of the cabbage kind in point oi' 

 wholesomeness, and it is of very easy cultivation. 

 There is, in fact, but one sort, that I know any 

 thing of, though the seed is sometimes more 

 prickly than at other times. To have spinach 

 very early in the spring, sow (Long Island) on 

 or about the first week of September, in drills a 

 foot apart, and, when the plants are well up, thin 

 them to six inches. They will be fine and strong 

 by the time that the winter sets in ; and, as soon 

 as that time comes, cover them over well with 

 straw, and keep the straw on till the breaking 

 up of the frost. Sow more as soon as the frost 

 is out of the ground ; and this will be in per- 

 fection in June. You may sow again in May ; 

 but the plants will go off to seed before they 

 attain to much size. If you save seed, save it 

 from plants that have stood the winter. 



266. SQUASH is, in all its varieties, culti 

 vated like the Cucumber, which see. 



267. TANSY, a perennial culinary and me 

 cinal herb, propagated from seed, or offsets. On 

 root in a garden is enough, 



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