THE CULTURE OF PLANTS 



you would have sweet marjoram early, raise it on 

 the hot-bed: the sweet basil requires the same. Sow 

 it also the latter end of Aprile in a warme fat soil, 

 eight rowes in a bed : you may sow it in July, and 

 transplant when two inches high in a warme bor- 

 dure at a south wall ; its seed, with that of basill 

 comes from the hotter countries. Sow rosmary 

 seed in Aprile or at the same time take its slips or 

 cuttings, and twist them a little at the ends, and 

 dibble in good soil, on a south- wall bordure ; but 

 cut not their tops: they easily root, being watered 

 in drought with soap-water. You may ply it to the 

 wall as shrubs. 



I am now come to roots. They require a light 

 earth, deep trenched, fat sand mixt with sheeps' 

 manure : it's convenient that it be manured a year 

 before, because new manure makes them f orke. 



Plant liquorish off-sets and runners in February 

 in this soil, well stirred and mixt ; after which do 

 not tread save in the furrows, six rowes in the bed, 

 and cover all the intervals with leitter topt with 

 sand, but let the plants be free ; for this is to keep 

 out drought the first summer ; keep them alwayes 

 clean of weeds, and cut their stalks near winter. 

 Let it stand three summers in the ground, and in 



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