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for the young leaves, which are used as a small salad 

 along with mustard and cress ; and it is used also in 

 soups, to which it imparts a warm and aromatic flavour. 

 There are two sorts cultivated in our gardens : 



1. Common, 2. Curled-leaved. 



Both sorts require to be sown in drills, in the manner 

 of other small salading, every three or four weeks during 

 the summer season. The curled sort, however, had 

 better be sown thinly broad-cast, a"s, when the leaves are 

 fully grown, they make a very handsome garnish for 

 dishes. To keep this sort very true, the most perfectly 

 curled plants should % be taken up carefully, and trans- 

 planted out into a bed to run up for seed. This latter 

 variety is by no means common ; but I have seen it in 

 great plenty in the gardens at Hampton Court, when 

 under the direction of the late Mr. Padley. 



21. CHIVES. 



^4llium Schcenoprasum, or common Chive, is a native 

 of Britain, found in Oxfordshire, Berwickshire, and Ar- 

 gyleshire : the root is perennial, composed of small 

 slender bulbs, pale, forming dense tufts. 



The leaves are used early in the spring for salads : 

 they are generally cut off close to the surface, but some- 

 times the whole of the plant is made use of as a substitute 

 for young onions. 



It is cultivated by dividing the roots, which should 

 be planted out in small patches, six or eight inches apart, 

 in almost any soil or situation, where they rapidly in- 

 crease, and soon make large bunches, which will last for 

 three or four years. 



22. CLARY. 



Salvia Sclarea, or common Clary, is a biennial plant, 

 a native of Italy, and introduced into England in 



