THE CULINARY GARDEN. 



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PLANTING SAGE. 



This herb may be propagated either by cuttings, or by 

 slips off the root. This is the proper season for propagating 

 it by shps, but the end of J uly, or the beginning of August, 

 is the most seasonable time for its propagation by cuttings. 

 Although they will thrive in almost any soil, yet a light soil 

 is preferable ; wet ground is by no means congenial to them, 

 as in winter they often perish in it : a few slips will be suffi- 

 cient, if wanted only in the green state ; but, if it be wanted 

 to dry for winter use, a gi'eater number will be required. Two 

 kinds are used in the kitchen, the green and the purple ; the 

 variegated sorts are reckoned ornamental plants, and seldom 

 cultivated for the kitchen. 



PROPAGATING MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



This is a proper time for sowing, or otherwise propagating 

 all medicinal plants, such as angelica, hyssop, lavender, rue, 

 wormwood, rosemary, balm, scurvy-grass, myrrh, burnet, &c. 



SOWING AND PLANTING THYME. 



This herb may also be propagated either by seed or from 

 slips. The seed should be sown on a light soil, and when the 

 plants are about two inches high, they may be planted out in 

 lines, about nine inches asunder, or the slips may be planted 

 at the same distance ; the seedlings may be thinned out, with- 

 out transplanting, to about six inches square. 



PLANTING TANSY. 



This herb will thrive in almost any soil, and may be propa- 

 gated by slips off the root ; very few will suffice, and if they 

 be planted in patches, sufficient space must be given them to 

 bush : but if they be planted in a row, the sets must be placed 

 twelve or fifleen inches distant. 



