SECT* XVI. OF HERBS, &C. 



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flieed, and eat alone with oil, vinegar, &c. Sow it 

 thick in March, in drills, about two feet afr nder, and 

 repeat the lowing every month till Mid-July, as it 

 prefently runs for feed. Thin the plants to feven or 

 eight inches. It likes a dry foil. - In a warm fituation 

 fome may be fown in February; the laft crop in June 

 mult be in a like fituation, and will not be ready before 

 winter; at the approach of which, protect it from froft 

 with dry litter. 



Hyssop is ufed fometimes in a culinary^ but more in 

 a medicinal way. There are white, blue, and red 

 flowered forts of it:, but the blue fpiked is that com* 

 monly cultivated, The parts for culinary purpofes are 

 the leaves, and young moots; and the flower fpikes are 

 cut, dried, and preferved for medical ufes, for which it 

 is an excellent herb. As hyjjbp is a woody evergreen 

 perennial, growing about a foot high, it may be planted 

 ior an edging of the kitchen garden. It is propagated 

 by feed, and rooted flips, in March, by cuttings in 

 April, or young flips in Jane, or July. A poor dry, 

 or fandy foil, bell fuite it. The plants may be nine 

 mches, or a foot afunder, as an edging, but mould be 

 near two feet from- one another in a bed, as they foon 

 get large. 



Lavender (the common) i3, for its pleafant 

 aromatic fcent, found in mo ft gardens, and makes a 

 neat perennial edging in large ones. It is propagated 

 by cuttings, or young flips, in April and May, fet a few 

 inches afunder, in a lhady fituation,, and good foil; and^ 

 when rooted^ planted out where they are to grow. Ths 

 Hips ihould be occafionly watered,, and as-a mat would 

 cover a great many, might be (haded when the fun is 

 hot upon them, for a fortnight or three weeks, to* 

 forward their rooting,. But though raijed in \ a good- 

 foil lavender likes a poor and dry one beft to abide in. 

 Set the plants at a foot diftance from one another. In 

 a. rich rnoift foil, they are apt to die in the winter; but 

 ia a dry hungry one, they rarely do- All plants tha 



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