78 The Gardeners Kalendar. Mar. 



dally if the ground is moift^ for in fuch land 

 this feafon is better than to fow them earlier. 



Slip and plant Tanfey, Pennyroyal, Chamo- 

 mile, Baum, Savory, Sage, Rofemary, HyfTop, 

 Lavender Cotton, Spike-lavender, Southern- 

 wood, Thyme, and moft other aromatick 

 plants, which are now beginning to fhoot, and 

 will take root better than at any other time of 

 the year. And divide the roots of Mint, 

 Tarragon, Wormwood, and other plants which 

 annually die to their roots, and plant them in 

 frefli beds, that the old beds may be deflroyed 

 in the fummer, when thefe are fit for ufe. 



You may now flip the oiF-fets from the old 

 roots of Skirrets, and plant them in rows ten 

 inches afunder, and fix inches diftance in the 

 rows, obferving, in dry weather, to water them 

 until they have taken root 5 but thefe feldom 

 make fo good roots as thofe raifed from feed. 



Your Lettuce plants which have flood the 

 winter in warm borders, muft now be planted 

 out into a more open expofure ; otherwife they 

 will draw up weak, and come to Httle, efpeci- 

 ally if they are near to walls, pales, or hedges, 

 or where they are planted but afmall diftance 

 from each other : in which cafes a good part of 

 the plants may be tranfplanted, and a few be 

 left remaining at a proper diftance to furnifh 



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