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plants are well up, thin them to six inches. They 

 will be fine and strong by the time that the winter 

 sets in ; and, as soon as that time comes, cover 

 them over well with straw, and keep the straw on 

 till the breaking up of the frost. — Sow more as 

 soon as the frost is out of the ground ; and this will 

 be in perfection in June. — You may sow again in 

 May ; but the plants will go off to seed before they 

 attain to much size. — If you save seed, save it from 

 plants that have stood the winter. 



266. SQUASH is, in all its varieties, cultivated 

 like the Cucumber, which see. 



267. TANSY, a perennial culinary and medici- 

 nal herb, propagated from seed, or offsets. One 

 root in a garden is enough. 



268. TARRAGON is a very hot, peppery herb. 

 It is used in soup and salads. It is perennial, and 

 may be propagated from seed, or from offsets, or 

 slips, put out in spring. Its young and tender tops 

 only are used. It is eaten with beef-steaks in com- 

 pany with minced shalots. A man may live very 

 well without it ; but, an Englishman once told me, 

 that he and six others once eat some beef-steaks 

 with Shalots and Tarragon, and that they voted 

 unanimously, that beef-steaks never were so 

 eaten !" It must be dried, like mint, for winter use. 



269. THYME.— There are two distinct sorts. 

 Both are perennial, and both may be propagated 

 either from seed, or from offsets. 



270. TOMATUM.— This plant comes from the 

 countries bordering on the Mediterranean. In 

 England it requires to be raised in artificial heat, 

 and to be planted out against warm walls. Here it 

 would require neither. It climbs up very high, 

 and would require bushy sticks. It bears a sort of 

 apple about as big as a black walnut with its green 



