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beans, and all others that require that treatment. Water all new 

 plantations, and such young advancing seedlings as may be im- 

 proved thereby. Pull up the haulm and stalks of peas, beans, and 

 cabbages, &c. which have done bearing, and carry them out of the 

 garden, as well as all weeds, hoed or picked up. 



Herbs. 



Cut such herbs as are now in flower to distil, or to dry for winter 

 use, always observing to do it when they are dry, and spread them 

 in a dry, shady place; for if they are dried in the sun, they will 

 shrink up, turn black, and be of little value. 



You may now, if omitted in spring, or in the preceding months, 

 plants slips of sage, rue, lavender, mastich, thyme, hyssop, and 

 winter savory, &c. , but these will not be near so strong, nor so 

 capable of resisting the severity of the winter as those planted at 

 an earlier period. 



Cut down the decayed flower stems of any kinds that appear 

 unsightly; and at the same time it will be proper to shorten all the 

 straggling young branches in order to keep the plants in due com- 

 pass, which will cause them to produce fresh shoots, and make the 

 plants appear neat during the remainder of the season. This should 

 be done, if possible, in moist or cloudy weather. 



Corn- Salad. 



The Valeriana locusta, variety olitoria, grows commonly in the 

 cornfields in many parts of Europe; hence, it is called corn-salad; 

 and from its being sufficiently hardy to stand the winter, and of 

 early growth in spring, has acquired the appellation of lamb's-let- 

 tuce, from its affording them an early pasturage. 



This is an annual plant, and is cultivated as an esculent herb in 

 salads for winter and early spring use. It should be sown in the 

 middle states in the last week of this month, or first in September, 

 on a dry soil and open situation, and raked in; the plants will come 

 up soon after, and should be thinned to two or three inches asun- 

 der; they are used during the winter and early spring months in 

 composition with lettuce and other salad herbs, and as a substitute 

 for these where deficient. 



Winter Cresses. 



The Erysimum barbarea, or winter cress, is used for the same 

 purpose, sown at the same time, and treated in like manner as di- 

 rected above for corn-salad. This plant is, by the market-garden- 

 ers about Philadelphia, tailed scurvy-grass, to which it is by no 

 means allied; the latter being the Cochlearia officinalis of Linn., 

 which has lather a disagreeable smell, and a warm, bitter taste, by 

 no means palatable as a salad. The winter cresses, if sown in the 

 last week of this month, or first in September, on a dry soil and 

 warm exposure, will afford an early salad in spring, very pleasing 



