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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, fyc. 



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, together with 

 many other sorts of pot, aromatic, or medicinal herbs J observing 

 the same method as directed in page 205, 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 205, 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. 



Thin them to about four or live inches distance, or some may be 

 pricked six inches asunder on a nursery-bed, to remain till next 

 month, when the whole should be transplanted finally. 



Give water immediately to those that you prick out, and if 

 sunny weather, shade will be necessary for a lew days. 



