KITCHEN GAR.DEN DISPLAYED. ^ZJ 



MARJORAM. 



Sweet, or Summer Marjoras^, 

 Pot Marjoram, 

 Winter Marjoram. 



T^ H E Marjorams are annual and perennial 

 ppt-herbs, of a fweet aromatic flavour^ 

 raifed, the fweet or annual kind, from feed 

 every Spring, the others by dividing or flip- 

 ping the eft- fees of the roots, and cccafionally 

 by feed ; and the plants of the t>vo latter conti- 

 pue of feveral years duration. All the forts 

 are ufed as pot-herbs j the young tops and 

 leaves together are the parts ufed, in Summer 

 in their growing Hate, and dried to keep fo;* 

 Winter. 



The Sweet, or annual Marjoram, is raifed 

 from feed every Spring. 3ow it in April, in 

 a bed or border of light earth, and fake in 

 the feed ; or fome in a hot- bed. When the 

 plants are one, two, or three inches high, 

 thin the feed-bed five or fix inches afunder ; 

 thofe thinped out, plant at the fame diftance, 

 iind watered ; they will all be of proper growth 

 the fame Summer and Autumn, and to gathey 

 to dry for Winter. 



The two perennial marjorams are al fo 

 raifed by feed, as above ; or propagated or 

 raifed by flips of or parting the roots and 

 tops together, in March and April, or in 

 September, and planted in a bed or border a 

 foot apart, and watered ; they will foon grow 

 ^Qiky in bunches, furnifh green tops and 



leaves 



