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OF HERBS, &C, 



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and occafionally ufed medicinally. It is perennial, and 

 propagated by parting its roots, or by feed fown in 

 April. It is fomewhat tender, likes a cool fituation, 

 but yet prefers a fandy, or a gravelly foil: Let it have 

 plenty of water. Some have iound it to do beft in pots^ 

 let for the morning fun only. 



Savory we have a fummer and a winter kind of; 

 the former is annual, and the latter perennial ; and both 

 are ufed as medicinal 'and culinary herbs, but the fummer 

 fort is that moftly cultivated for medicine. The annual 

 is propagated from feed in March or April, fown thin 

 and (hallow, in drills, eight or nine inches afunder. 

 The perennial is fometirnes propagated from feed, but 

 more ufually from rooted flips, or cuttings from the 

 top, in fpring, as alfo from fide flips. The annual fort 

 mould grow at fix inches diftance in the drills, and the 

 perennial be allowed a foot. Summer favory, gathered 

 for drying, is beft drawn up by the roots. 



Small age is a fort of wild parfley, found inmoift 

 places, and was formerly much cultivated in gardens, 

 and ufed in foups and fallads, and medicine^ as a warm 

 herb. Sow it in fpring as parfley. 



Scurvy Grass (the Dutch', or round leaved) is 

 fometirnes cultivated in gardens for its excellent medi- 

 cinal properties. Sow it in autumn, or fpring, but beft 

 early in the former. Though it will grow in any foil, 

 it fhouldhave a moift one. 



Sorrel is an acid, perennial plant, much relifhed 

 by fome as a jallad, often ufed as a pot-herb, and fome- 

 tirnes as a medicinal one; Though found common 

 enough in the fields, it is much improved by garden 

 culture. The round leaved fort, commonly called the 

 Roman, is reckoned the more grateful acid, and en- 

 creafes in the ground apace. Sorrel is generally pro- 

 pagated by parting its roots, either in fpring or autumn % 

 and if propagated from feed, (which produces the fineft 

 plants) it mould be fown in March. The plants of the 

 common forrel mould be fix or eight inches afunder, 



