SECT. XVI. 



OF HERBS, &C. 



Balm, and moft perennial herbs, fliould be frelxl 

 planted in beds every third or fourth year ; and each 

 year, in autumn oxfpring, have the ground ftirred about 

 them, and dreffed with fome frefh earth, or a little well 

 confumed manure, the plants being previoufly cut 

 down, and ground weeded. 



Basil is a pretty annual, of which we have two 

 forts, the large and the bufo: (each having a variety) 

 both are ufed as pot-herbs, but chiefly the former* 

 •Sometimes alfo this herb (a few of the young leaves) 

 is ufed in fal/ads, and occasionally in medicine. The 

 large grows about a foot high, and the bufh but a few 

 inches. They are both fweet, but the bufh bajil moft 

 fo. It has a delicate round form, and fo is cultivated 

 as ornamental, though its flower is nothing. Both forts 

 are ufually -fawn on a gentle hot-bed, in March or April, 

 and may be pricked out in fmall pots, but will hardly 

 endure the open air till June. The large is the hardieit, 

 and will come up on cold ground, but be backward. 

 They like a rich foil, and the bufh does belt in one full 

 * half dung. 



Borage is a cordial herb, that has its varieties, 

 blue, red, and white flowered, and one with variegated 

 leaves; but the former is that commonly "cultivated as 

 a pot-herb, and its flowers for fallads, and cool -tankards. 

 To have it young all the year, let it be fown in fpring, 

 fummer, and autumn, either in drills, or broad calh 

 Thin the plants to nine inches afunder. It fows it felt* 

 in autumn, and likes a dry foil, 



Bug loss pofiefles the like cordial virtues with 

 horage, fo that the one may be fubltituteu for the other. 

 Culture is the fame. 



Burnet is a warm perennial fall ad herb, ufed alfc* 

 in cool tankards, propagated in fpnng, or autumn, either 

 by feed, or parting its roots, and planting them a foot 

 afunder. Keep it frequently cut down, that it may 

 constantly furaifh yaung (hoots for ufe* 



M4 Camo- 



