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New. Principles. of Gardening. 
beft Seafon to tranfplant them is in March, at which Time 
tit of Leaves or “Grafs; and plant” them in Borders, at about 
feven Inches apart in. the Rows, as well as one Row from the 
other. erties ste “ 
N. B. That a Border about three Feet and half in breadth 
(which will receive feven Rows) and twenty five or thirty Feet 
in length, is fully fufficient to ferve a very large Family. Note 
alfo, That the oftener Chives are cut, the finer their Leaves 
conie, and confequently more agreeable in Sallets, than thofe 
Leaves that-are coatfer ‘and tough. 
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Of Clary. 
1. Its Names. i 
ALARY is called by the Apothecaries Galkitricum, as alfo 
& | Oruala, and by fome Tota bona, but not properly ; in [ta 
lian Sciavia, in French Oruale, in High Dutch Scharlach; io 
-Low Datch Scharleye, and in Englifh Clarie, Cleere, or Clary. 
2. Its Defcription. 
Altho’ there be divers kinds of Clary, befides the garden 
Clary, as the fmall Clary called in Latin Galhtricum alterum, 
another fort called Fupiter’s Diffaff, and in Latin Colus Jovis: 
The wild Clary, or Ocalus Chriftt, called in Latin Horminum 
Sylvefire, and the Clary with purple Leaves, Horminum Syl- 
weftre foliis purpureis : Yet that Clary of which lam now to treat 
on, is the garden Clary, without farther Regard to any other. 
The Leaves of the garden Clary are of a broad oval 
Form, ‘with their Edges a {mall matter indented, of a whitifh 
Colour, and fomewhat rough and hairy, as alfo are the Stalks, 
swhich produce their Blofioms in June, Fuly and Auguft, that 
are not unlike thofe of Sage, which are fucceeded -with long 
Husks, whercin is their Seed of a black Colour which ripens foon 
after. The Root is divided into many fmall fibrous Roots, and 
the Herb in general is of a very flrong Smell. ‘When its Seed 
4is ripe, which is always the fecond Year after fowing,, the Roor, 
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