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Plant alfo, where wanted, flips of lavender, rue, and 

 -rofemary : and you may alfo plant flips of wormwood 

 and fouthernwood. 



But t-hefe flips fliould now, if poffible, be fuch as have 

 roots to them, as you will fbmetimes find fuch arifing 

 from the roots of the main plants, where they have been 

 planted pretty low, that their branches touch the ground, 

 when they will have taken root. 



Thefe cuttings fliould alfobe from about fix to eight, 

 or nine inches, in length ; planted in a Ihady border, and 

 occafionally watered. 



Management of Aromatic Plants. 



Now In the beginning of this month, it will be pro- 

 per to cut down the decayed flower-ftems of many kinds 

 of aromatic plants ; fuch as hyfl!bp, favory, lavendar, and 

 all other fuch like kinds. 



At the fame time, it will be proper to fliorten all the 

 flraggling young flioots, in order to keep the plants with- 

 in due compafs ; which alfo will make them produce 

 numbers of new fliort flioots, and they will, by that 

 means, form clofc fnug heads before winter. 



But this work fliould, if poiTible, be done in a moill 

 time, and with a pair of garden-fliears, let the decayed 

 fiower-fiems, and the young flioots, or branches be 

 trimmed pretty clofe. 



The plants, after Jihis, will foon begin to put out new 

 flioots ; and thefe will get firength, and make the plants 

 appear neat all winter. 



Gathering Seeds. 



Gather feeds, in due time, according as they ripen. 



Let this be done in dry days ; and as foon as they ai j 

 cut, fpread them upon mats, or cloths, to dry and hard- 

 en. But they muil be fpread where rain, if it fliould 

 happen, cannot touch them; and let them be now and 

 then turned: when it has Jain a fortnight, or tl e e- 

 abouts to dry, let it be beaten, or rubbed out, and y/Ai 

 cleaned. 



Then fpread the feed thin upon cloths, in a dry place; 

 where let it lie a day or two to harden it properly : it is 

 then to be p.ut up in bags or bo.\es. 



S ^ Solving 



