£54 OF HERBS,&c; SECT, XVI* 



weak. A freih, but poor, foil; is better than a rich 

 one, which makes them too rampant, and lefs fruitful. 

 See Lift 8. Sett. 19, and Obfervation. 



The double najburtium is conGdered merely as a fine 

 flower, but they are a beautiful garmfb. It grows from 

 cuttings ; Plant thefe in pots, in June, and place them 

 on a little heat, - and they will foon take root. Or if 

 the pots are plunged in a warm border, and covered 

 clofe with a handglafs, it may be fufficient. Gently 

 water them when the mould gets quite dry. This 

 plant is tender, in winter requiring a £ove^ yet it 

 flourifhes all fummer in open ground, flowering moft in 

 a poor foil. 



Parsley we have a plain and a curled kind of; and 

 though the former is mofliy ufed, yet the latter is 

 equally proper as a pot ''-kerb, and it makes a goo d garni ft) z 

 hemlock cannot be raiftaken for it, as for the plain fome- 

 times it has been. There is, however, more of effence 

 in an equal quantify of the plain, than of the curled; 

 but it is only ufing rather more of the latter, which, if 

 not fuffered to feed, will fiand three years. To produce 

 the curled fort very fine, [as tor garnifhl the plants 

 fhould be thinned to three or four incnes- afunder ; and 

 it may be fowii either at broad caft* or in drills about 

 nine inches afunder, as the common fort is. Parfley is 

 fometimes Town early in autumn, to have it young for 

 the winter and faring; but the ufual time is earlv in 

 fpring, and one lowing may be fufhc ; ent lor the year: 

 Curit down often to get rid of the old, and young wdi 

 fpring up- Cutting, down parfley ihonld never be 

 omitted about the end of Stptember, that it may be had 

 good through the winter and fpring. This, herb wilt 

 bear tranfplanting.. For Hamburg patffey^ lee par/ley 

 in the laft left ion, p* £o>0. 



Penny-royal is a pet and medical herb of the: 

 mint fpices. There is-an upright and a trailing fort of 

 k ; but the latter is that chiefly ufed : This is propa- 

 gated by rooted branches, of which it affords plenty, 



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