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them a fecond time, cutting out the 

 Plants to a wider Diftance ; for they 

 mould be, at laft, left at lealt a Foot 

 afunder : and you mould be particu- 

 larly careful to clear them from 

 Weeds, efpecially the firft Summer ; 

 for when the Plants have fpread fo 

 as to cover the Surface of the Ground , 

 the Weeds will not fo readily grow 

 between them. The fecond Year 

 after fowing, the Plants will moot 

 up to Heads, which will be fit to cut 

 about the Beginning of Augufi ; at 

 which time they mould be cut, and 

 tied up in Bunches, fetting them in 

 the Sun, if the Weather be fair ; 

 but if not, they muft be fet in Rooms 

 to dry them. The common Produce 

 is about an hundred and fixty Bundles 

 or Staves upon an Acre, which they 

 fell for about one Shilling a Stave. 

 Some People fow Caraway and other 

 Seeds amongft their Teafels : but 

 this is not a good Method ; for the 

 one fpoils the other ; nor can you fo 

 eafily clear them from Weeds, as 

 when alone. 



DITTANY. Vide Ditfamnus. 



DOCK. ^Lapathum. 



DODARTIA [This Plant was 

 fo named by Dr. Tournefort, from 

 Monfieur Do dart, a Member of 

 the Academy of Sciences at Paris']. 

 We have no Englijb Name for this 

 Plant. 



The Characlers are ; 

 hath a perfonated tubulous Flo<vy- 

 iff conjijling of one Leaf, having tnup 

 difiincl Lips : the upper Lip is bifid, 

 find the under one is divided into three 

 Parts ; from <whofe Calyx arifes the 

 Pointal, fixed like a Nail in the hinder 

 Part of the Flower, and afterward 

 becomes a roundi/h Fruit, divided in- 

 to two Cells, which are filled with 

 fmall Seeds. 



The Species are ; 



J. Dodartia Orient a lis, flare 



purpurafcente. Toum. Cor. Eaflern 

 Dodartia, with a purplifh Flower. 



2. Dodartia bellidis folio, fort 

 albo fpicato. Dodartia with a Daify- 

 leaf, and white Flowers growing in 

 a Spike. 



The firft Sort was discovered by 

 Dr. Tournefort near Mount Ararat, 

 from whence he fent the Seeds to the 

 Royal Garden at Paris; and they 

 have fmce been communicated to 

 many other Gardens. This is a 

 perennial Plant, which commonly 

 rifes about eighteen Inches high, 

 with (lender Stems, which are branch- 

 ed out from the Bottom, and have 

 a few fmall Reaves thinly placed on 

 them : the Flowers come out on the 

 Side of the Branches, which are 

 Ihaped like thole of the Snap-dragon, 

 and are of a purple Colour. As this 

 Plant flowers pretty late in the Sum- 

 mer, it rarely produces good Seeds 

 in England; therefore the only Me- 

 thod of propagating it is, by Suck- 

 ers from the Root, which mould not 

 be taken off until they are pretty 

 Itrong ; for the Root does not in- 

 creaie very faft here. It loves a 

 gentle loamy Soil, and mould have 

 a warm Border, where it will thrive 

 much better than when it is kept in 

 Pot 6 ; but if it is not watered in dry 

 Weather, the Flowers w ill be weak, 

 and the Plants will not make much*' 

 Increafe. 



The fecond Sort is a Native of 

 the South of France and Spain; and 

 has been defcribed by feveral Eo- 

 tanifts under the Title of Linaria 

 bellidis folio. This Plant feldoin 

 continues longer than two Years ; 

 therefore the Seeds mould be fown 

 foon after they are ripe, in Pots 

 hiled with frefh Earth, andfheltered 

 under an Hot-bcd-fram'e in Winter, 

 giving them as much free Air a? 

 pcjiibie, In the Spring the Plant* 



