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OF HERBS, Sec. SECT. XVI. 



for garlick. The feeds are eatable as well as the 



cloves. 



Rosemary we have the varieties, plain, filver, and 

 gold firiped. The plain is a ufeful medicinal herb, 

 which mould be found in every garden. It is propa- 

 gated by fuckers, layers, flips, .or cuttings, in the 

 Jpring, fetting the two laft where they have not much 

 fun; and when rooted, towards autumn, or in the fol- 

 lowing fpring, allot the young plants a ftation rather 

 warm, and fheltered, as rofemary is apt to fuffer, or die, 

 in fevere winters, efpecially the variegated. 



Rue is a medical plant, propagated in fpring, by 

 feed, flips, or cuttings. It ftands many years, but 

 fhould be prevented feeding, and pruned iiown oc- 

 cafionally, to keep it in a neat bufhy trim, of moderate 

 height, and ftrong growth. 



Sage there are feveral forts of, but the common red 

 is that ufed chiefly for ' culinary purpofes, and the green 

 both for thefe, and medicinally for tea, &c. There is a 

 narrow leaved green fort, called tea fage, or Jage of 

 virtue; but the broad leaved green is reckoned by fome 

 better, not being fo heating, and unpleafant to the 

 tafte. The variegated forts of fage are only confidered 

 as ornaments in the fl *wer garden, or fhrubbery. Sage 

 is propagated by flips or cuttings of the laft year's 

 fhoots, in April qx May, chufing thole that are fhorland 

 ftrong; or of the young fhoots in the early part of fum- 

 mer, fet in to an inch from the top, and about four 

 inches diftance, in fome fhady place. Thefe, if they 

 fpindle tall in the fummer, fhould be pinched down 

 (in time) to about rhree inches, in order to form bufhy 

 heads. They will be well rooted in Augujl, when they 

 fhould be planted a foot afunder, in a funny and fhel- 

 tered fituation, from the N. and E. that they may ftand 

 fevere winters, which they will the better do, if the foil 

 is rather poor. 



Samphire is by fome greatly efteemed fora pickle, 

 ufmg its leaves, which are fometimes added to fallads, 



and 



