ICT. XVI. 



OF HERBS, 8cC. 



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earth under, and drawing it up about old plants ona 

 year, will produce plenty of rooted branches the next. 

 The plants fhould grow at fix or eight inches diftance. 

 If propagated from feed, let it be fown thin in March, 

 and covered lightly. Slips are bed made in April. 

 This herb makes a neat edging when planted clofe, but 

 it is a great impoverifher of the ground. Keen it low. 



Tomatum or love apples, we have red, white, and 

 yellow fruited ; and of the red and yellow, a cherry-fhaped 

 fort. The fini, or large red, is that commonly cul- 

 tivated, and it ferves for an ornament in the garden, as 

 well as of ufe for the table, in a pickle made of the green 

 fruit, and when red in foups, See. It is alfo fome- 

 times pickled when red, (i. e. ripe.) At the end ox 

 March, or beginning of April, it muft be fown in a 

 moderate hot-bed; and being (bon thinned, let the 

 plants grow two or three inches high, and be pricked 

 in final] pots, to turn into the coi l ground towards the 

 end of May ; or if not long and weak, keep them under 

 cover a little longer. Give them a funny fituation 

 againft a wall, for regular and timely training, or fup- 

 port them by flicks. They take up 'much room, and 

 in rows mould be three yards afunder. If planted out 

 upon holes of hot dung, it would help their fpeedy 

 rooting, and forward them much for ripening their 

 fruit, which in bad feafons they fometimes fail in. 

 They require much water in dry weather. 



Wormwood is a ufeful medicinal herb; and com- 

 mon as it is in many places, in others it is not to be 

 met with wild. Befides the common, there is a Roman 

 wormwood — both are efficacious ; fome preferring the 

 one, fome the other. They are commonly raifed from 

 flips and cuttings, in any of the fummet months, or from 

 feed fown in fpring. 



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