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and weather are warm. If it is intended to transplant 

 the plants, sow the seed in rows, wide enough apart to 

 admit the use of a narrow hoe, or, if the plants are to 

 remain where the seed is sown, sow in rows fifteen inches 

 apart, and thin out the plants enough to admit the use of 

 a hoe. The seed should not be 

 covered more than a quarter of an 

 inch deep, and if the ground is 

 moist, the shallower the better. 

 Drop five or six seeds to the inch 

 of row, as the thicker you sow, the 

 easier it is to hoe between the 

 rows of plants just before they are 

 cracking the ground, and to keep 

 the bed free from weeds. Four 

 pounds of seed will be amply suf- 

 ficient for an acre. If grown by 

 the acre, I would sow in rows, Fi ff . SO.-SUMMEB SAVOET. 

 from twenty-one to twenty-four inches apart, and cul- 

 tivate with a horse-hoe, and thin out the plants as recom- 

 mended for thyme. 



SWEET MARJORAM. 



The cultivation of Sweet Marjoram is precisely similar 

 to that of Summer Savory, except, perhaps, that the 

 plants do not bear transplantation so well, and conse- 

 quently it is better to sow the seed where they are intend- 

 ed to remain, in rows fifteen inches apart. Sow a plenty 

 of seed, say four or five seeds to each inch of row, and 

 ultimately thin out the plants to ten inches apart ; or, 

 the rows may be sown twenty-one to twenty-four inches 

 apart, and in this case, the plants may be left thicker in 

 the row, or just wide enough apart to admit the use of 

 a narrow hoe. If too thick, every second plant may be 

 drawn out for early use. 

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