f5B OF KERBS, &C. SECT. XVL 



fend the other a foot, or fifteen inches. Common forrel 

 likes a cool moift foil, but the Roman a dry one. Cut 

 It down at the latter end of the year, and cover it over 

 with a little mould, firjft ftirriiig the foil. 



Succory is a Jallad, pot, and medicinal herb, but 

 Hot much cultivated. To be good, it mull; be well 

 blanched as endive, of which it is a wild fort. Sow it 

 in March for autumn and -winter ufe. 



T ansey is ^culinary and medicinal herb, of which, 

 faefides the common, there are curled leaved, tad vari- 

 egated forts; but the former only is proper to be ufed 

 medicinally. It is perennial, and propagated by rooted 

 flips,, in fpring or autumn, fet at eighteen inches dif- 

 tance, in beds, four feet and a half wide ; and will grow 

 in any foil or fituation. 



Tarragon is a perennial pot and fallad herb, 

 which is much admired by fome, for its peculiar high 

 warm flavour. It is propagated fometimes from feed, 

 but moftly by rooted, or other flips, fet in fpring, or 

 autumn, at fix or eight inches diftance, and may be by 

 cuttings in the fummer months. The (hoots die down 

 towards winter, but the roots are hardy, and increafe 

 apace. If wanted in winter, it may be dried as other 

 herbs are, or forced as mint, in order to have it green* 

 When the items begin to run. cut them down, in order 

 to produce young (hoots, for the tender tops only are 

 to be ufed : and that not too freelv, as it is an herb that 

 heats much. 



Thyme is a pot-herb, of which there are commonly 

 -Cultivated a broad and a narrow leaved fort, but the 

 former moftly. There is a fore called lemon thyme, 

 that is admired for its flavour, and another called Jilver 

 thyme, which, with thefriped, are confidered rather as- 

 merely ornamental. It is beft to raife the common 

 forts from feed, though root branches, on account of 

 their trailing nature, may be ufually had from old plants* 

 Slips will grow, if fet in a light rich foil, in a fhady 

 fituation, or kept moift by watering, Loofening the 



earth 



