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GARDENING FOR THE SOUTH. 



used as a demulcent, either alone or combined ■^\th other 

 substances, for lung diseases. 



A few roots of this plant when once started, will be of 

 verj little trouble in the garden. The plant is propa- 

 gated hy cuttings of the roots. Dig the soil at least two 

 feet deep. Take the horizontal roots of established plants, 

 five or six inches long. Every shoot planted should have 

 at least two eyes ; make the rows three feet apart, and the 

 plant twelve to fifteen inches in the rows, and cover the 

 roots well with mould. Onions, lettuce or radishes, may 

 be grown between the rows the first year ; afterwards 

 keep the soil free from weeds, dress the surface with ma- 

 nure every autumn, and at the end of the 'third year take 

 up the crop as soon as the leaves are fully decayed, and 

 dry the roots thoroughly. In shallow or poor ground it 

 will not succeed. 



Hyssopus Officinalis — Hyssop. 



Hyssop is a hardy evergreen undershrub from the 

 South of Europe, of which the leaves and flower-stalks 

 are the parts used medicinally. It has an aromatic odor, 

 and a warm pungent taste. It is stimulant and expecto- 

 rant, and employed in humoral asthma and chronic catarrh. 



Hyssop is propagated by slips or dividing the roots in 

 the spring, or by sowing the seed in March. Transplant the 

 young plants in July to where they are to remain, or you 

 may thin the young plants to six inches apart, and let 

 them remain in the seed-bed until autumn before trans- 

 planting. It likes a dry sandy soil, and about eighteen 

 inches space should be given to each plant. 



Inula HeUnium — Elecampane. 

 A native of England and Japan. It is a perennial 

 plant, and loves a moist soil. It is cultivated for its thick; 



