New®Principles of Gardening. 
planting in May, dc. If the conveniency and quantity of your 
Water is fuch, that you can flow their Alleys between them, 
‘twill add a much greater Nourifhment to them than the com- 
mon way of watering the Holes only. 
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Tt often happens, that matty of the laft Plantation, if planted . 
in a fhady Place, will not produce their Flowers till after 
Michaelmas, at which time fuch Plants fhould be taken up 
with the Earth to their Roots, and planted upright in Sand, 
within a Greetthoufe, ‘dc. giving them plenty of Water at 
planting ; which will produce very good Flowers! fir for wfe 
in the Winter, even until Chriffmas, as 1 have oftem experi- 
enced. 
To continue a good Kind’ of Seed, miake choice of fome 
of the very beft and earlidt Flowers, which let run to: Seed, 
fecuring them from the Injuries of Winds, by Stakes, Oc. And 
as foon as the Seed Veffcls and Seed are fully perfected, cut 
away the whole Stem, and carry it into your Greenhoutfe , 
and there let it be throughly dry’d before you rub-or thrafh it 
out: For as Mr. Bradley ingenioully obferves, ‘tis not neceflary to 
leave the Seed upon the’ Plants ‘till the Pods are dry, left they 
fhed the Seed, or be damaged by ‘Rains, {Milkidelws; ode. | 
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SECT. XU. 
2) Of Dill: 
1. Its Names. 
ILL is‘called in Greek avy4ov, in Latin Anethum and Ane- 
tum, in High Dutch Dylfen, in Low Dutch Dille, in 
Italian Anetho, in Spanifo Eneldo, in French Anct, andjin 
Englifa Dill and Anet. Ne Sar" eae 
2. Its Defcription. 
Dill for the generality produces a little Stalk, about fixteen 
or cightcen Inches high, round in’ form, and jointed like unto 
Fennel, as alfo are the Leaves which are finely ‘cut, but much 
{mallér. The Flowers are very fmall and of a yellow Colour, 
eer getter 
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srowing in {pokie Tufts like unto thofe of Parfnips, ibut no- 
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