164 New Principles of Gardening. 
To preferve Liquorifh from drying after being taken up, you 
muft prepare a Bed of Sand within your Greenhon(e, @c. and 
therein place all the Roots in Beds or Rows; about half an 
Inch afunder, which will prefecve them very moitt throughout 
the whole Winter. 
Meta; OY. 
Of Marjorams. 
1. Their Names, 
ARFORAM is called in Latin Majorana, and Av a- 
racis, and alfo Sampfychum, in High Dutch Mayoran, 
in Spanifo Mayorana, Moradux, and Almoradux,.in French 
Mariolame, and in Englifh tweet Marjoram oc Summer Mar- 
Joram, and Pot Marjoram or Winter Mar joram. 
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2. Their Defeription. <— 
Summer fweet Marjoram, or the great {weet Marjoram cal- 
led in Latin Majorana major, is a low and fhrubby Plant, of 
a very light green Colour, and pleafant aromatick Smell. The 
Stalks are flender, rifing about one Foot in Height, divided 
into many {mall Branches, about which are placed divers {mall 
foft and hoary Leaves. The Flowers are produced near to the 
‘upper. parts of the Stalks, in chaffy or fpiked white Ears, The 
Root is compact ‘of many fmall Fibres, and the whole Plant 
is of a moft delightful aromatick Smell. 
», Pot. or Winter Marjoram, called in Latin Majorana ma- 
jor Anglica, confifts of feveral {mall Branch es, whereon are placed 
fuch Leaves as the former, but not fo hoary, nor of fo plea- 
fant an aromatick Smell. 
The Flowers are produc’d at the tops of the Branches in {mall 
Tufts, of a whitifh Colour, and withal fomething tending to 
a purple. The whole Plant is of a long Duration, which the 
other is not, for that being not able to endure the violence of. 
the Winter, is then perifh’d. Whereas the Pot Marjoram kceps 
greenall the Winter, and is therefore called Winter Marjoram. 
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