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,om seed sown in April and May. The greater part of the above-men- 

 tioned plants are perennial, and will multiply from the seed they drop, 

 or from partings from the roots. The off-sets, roots, or young plants 

 thus raised, should be planted at suitable distances from each other early 

 in the spring. 



The beds should afterward be kept free from weeds, and as the herbs 

 come into flower, they should be cut on a dry day, and spread in a 

 shady place to dry for winter use. The best way to preserve them after 

 they are dried is to rub them so as to pass them through a sieve, then 

 pack them in bottles or boxes, each kind by itself; they should be after- 

 ward kept in a dry place. 



In the month of October the herb-beds should be examined. Laven- 

 der, rosemary, and other tender plants should be taken up, potted, and 

 placed in a frame or green-house for the winter. Thyme, hyssop, win- 

 ter savory, southernwood, sage, rue, and the like, will require their tops 

 to be neatly dressed; and pot marjoram, burnet, tarragon, tansy, penny- 

 royal, sorrel, chamomile, fennel, horehound, mint, lovage, and other 

 kinds of hardy perennial herbs, should be cut down close to the ground. 

 After this is done, it will be proper to dig lightly, and lo'osen the 

 ground between the roots of the shrubby plants; but the beds of close- 

 growing running plants, such as mint, running thyme, and all other 

 creeping herbs, will not well admit of digging; therefore, after the 

 stalks are cut down, and the beds cleared of weeds, dig the alleys, and 

 strew some of the loose earth evenly over the beds; and if the ground 

 be rather poor or light, a top dressing of very rotten dung will be of 

 considerable service. 



-The fruits appropriate to the garden are : 

 The blackberry, currant, gooseberry, 

 grape, dwarf pear, raspberry, straw- 

 berry and quince. All these may, 

 and should be cultivated in every 

 garden, though it contain no more 

 than one eighth of an acre. The ex- 

 pense and labor are comparatively 

 trifling, and the comfort, health and 

 often profit, which their proper cul- 

 tivation affords are by no means in- 

 considerable. 



The Blackberry. — This is one of the 

 easiest cultivated, the hardiest, most 

 productive, the most acceptable, and 

 we may also add, the most neglected 

 of our berried fruits. The native 

 plantations, once so plentiful in their 

 supply, have largely yielded to the 

 cultivation of fine crops, and we must 

 now either dispense with the use of 

 this excellent fruit, or resort to its 

 artificial cultivation. As it can so 

 easily be done, either by transferring 



THE FRHITS TO CUITIVATE.- 



THE LAWTON. 



