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joram (O. vul- 
weet or knotted 
he firft there are ee with white flowers, and 
eee ftalks ; with purple flowers, and with variegated 
leaves ; which is fometimes cultivated in gardens, under the 
title of pot marjoram, ufed in foups. 
ourth fort is at prefent commonly known by the 
name f winter fweet marjoram, but was formerly called 
pot marjoram, being chiefly ufed for nofegays, as coming 
fooner to flower than {weet marjoram 
And there is a variety of it with variegated leaves 
Method of Culture.—The firft four forts may be readily 
increafed by flips, nt ae and parting the roots, and in 
the firft and third forts alfo by feeds. 
The feed fhould “ peoeaea frefh from the feed-fhops, 
and be fown in the early {pring months, as March or the fol- 
lowing month, on a bed or border of good = ean 
raking it in lightly. When the plants are up, a e at- 
tgined a few inches in growth, they fhould be planted out 
seh ing moift weather, Ne a warm dry ituaton in rows ten 
twelve i inches diftant, to remain, — 
ner as 
scanenwids aie napa ee 
from weeds during the ae mmer feafon, a n 
have the decayed ftalks cleared away, ied Me acai 
about the plants; and when in beds, digging the alleys and 
throwing a little of the ae over the bed 
Where neceffary the plant be cue into the plea- 
fure ground, with {mall balls of earth about their roots, ei- 
ther in the autumn or early fpring. 
The other tender enn may be increafed 2 planting fips 
or cuttings of the young fhoots, in the {pring and fum 
months ; 1n the ae feafon in pots of light earth, Scie 
them in a mild hot-bed, but in the latter either in pots or 
warm fhady borders ; water being immediately given, and oc- 
cafionally repeated in {mall proportions, being covered down 
by hand glaffes in the latter cafe, to expedite their rooting ; 
being removed, when the plants begin to fhoot at the top. 
In the autumn the plants may be removed into feparate {mall 
pots, and afterwards treated as the more hardy plants of the 
green-houfe kind. 
The three firft forts are ufeful as culinary plants, as well 
as ornamental in the borders of the pleafure ground ; and 
the other kinds afford variety in the — mere collections. 
Oricanum, inthe Materia _— ARJORAM. 
ORIGEN, in Biography, one of the eer celebrated 
fathers of the church, who dourithed i in pd ie century, 
was born in Alexandria in the year 18 
furnamed Adamantius, either on account aE hls indefatigable 
application to ftudy, or of the incredible firmnefs wi 
which he endured the perfecutions to which his profeffion of 
Chriftianity expofed him. By Porphyry he is fuppofed to 
ave been born of heathen parents, and educated in their reli- 
gious principles ; but Eufebius, who wrote his life, has fhewn 
moft fatisfattorly that his parents were Chrittians, and that 
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they took the greateft poffible care of his education. 1n his 
childhood he excited the satay expeCtations from his 
quick ea page in feveral parts of knowledge, are 
e his age; at 
Clement, y whom he was introduced to an acquaintance 
with the firit principles of philofophy, and impreffed with a 
perfuafion of its utility as preparatory to the fludy o 
Chriftian truth. After this he attended the philofophical 
{chool of the celebrated Ammonius Saccas, the founder of 
be Ecle@tic philofophy, which was hn by ee 
Chriftians ; here he made a 
oomed to 
fuffer, excited in him fo cornell a defire to die in the fame 
caufe, and at the fame moment, that his mother found it necef- 
nd not t ved from his fledfattnefs y compaffior 
or his and feven child he mar f Leo- 
nides bein owed by the confifcation of his property, 
is = | children had, at firtt, nothing to rel 
ng to rely on 
fuppo the bounty of a rich ane a lady of 
Al cardae, till Origen, though no PR aaleonds years 
nabled to furnifh them ul “the means of fub- 
our of mart 
clius, Phutarcl s brother, x became bifhop of siniieg take 
after the death of Demetriu en was not more t 
eighteen yea ee age when i was feleéted to prefide over 
the catechetical hes by appointment of Demetrius: in 
which im office he gained univerfal efteem by his 
frequent Tite. and the other kind offices that he performed, 
to the confeffors in prifon, whether ftrangers or friends. 
a i faoy = : his ears {uffered martyrdom, one of 
time there was no ftated 
i 
ree oboli, equal to five pence, tobe paid him dail 
while he was very young, — more than twenty years of 
3 ages 
