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from offsets. It is perennial, and is sometimes used 

 as a pickle, or in saJads. 



259. SAVORY. — Two sorts, summer and win- 

 ter. The former is annual, and the latter perennial. 



260. SAYOY.— See Cabbage, Paragraph 201. 



261. SCORZENERA.— This is only another 

 kind of Salsafy. It is cultivated and used in the 

 same manner as Salsafy is. 



262. SHALOT.— A little sort of Onion, which 

 is taken up in the fall and kept for winter use. 

 Each plant multiplies itself in the summer by add- 

 ing offsets all round it. One of them is a plant to 

 put out in the spring to produce other offsets for 

 use and for planting out again. They should be 

 planted in rows six inches apart, and four inches 

 apart in the rows. The ground should not be wet 

 at bottom, and should be kept very clean during the 

 summer. 



263. SKIRRET is cultivated for its root, which 

 is used in soups. It may be raised from seed, or 

 from offsets. It is perennial, and a very small 

 patch may suffice. 



264. SORREL.— This is no other than the wild 

 sorrel cultivated. It is propagated from seed, or from 

 offsets. It is perennial. The Fjrench make large 

 messes of it ; but a foot square may suffice for an 

 American garden. 



265. SPINACH.— Every one knows how good 

 and useful a plant this is. It is certainly preferable 

 to any of the cabbage kind in point of wholesome- 

 riess, and it is of very easy cultivation. There is, 

 in fact, but one sort, that I know any thing of, 

 though the seed is sometimes more prickly than at 

 other times. To have spinach very early in the 

 spring, sow (Long Island) on or about the first week 

 of September, in drills a foot apart, and, when the 



