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THE PRACTICAL GARDENER. 



SOWING AND PLANTING SAVORY. 



The same directions will apply for the propagation of sa- 

 vory as those which have been given for marjoram. If the 

 sweet sort be wanted at an early period, it may be brought for- 

 ward by placing hand-glasses over the roots, or by planting 

 the slips in a frame with lights. Winter savory may also be 

 propagated in the same manner by slips. 



PLANTING TARRAGON, 



There are three methods of raising this herb, either by slips, 

 cuttings, or seed ; if the former be adopted, less space will be 

 required, and it will succeed, if the cuttings be made in August. 

 A wet soil does not suit it ; it is apt to perish in it in the course 

 of the winter. 



GOURDS AND PUMPKINS. 



The fruit of these plants being used when young, and in 

 their more advanced and mature growth for culinary use, a few 

 may be raised for that purpose. 



They are only propagated by seeds, which should be sown 

 in pots or shallow pans, in any light rich mould, and placed 

 in a melon or cucumber-frame to forward their growth; or 

 where many are wanted to be raised for planting out in the 

 pleasure-garden, or for training on walls or fences, or for 

 hiding any disagreeable object, for which, from their rapid 

 growth and large leaves, they are admirably calculated, they 

 may be transplanted, when in their rough leaf, into pots of 

 the size called thirty-two's, one plant in each, and forwarded 

 on a slight hot-bed. When frilly established, air should be 

 freely admitted every day, so as to inure them by degrees to 

 meet their final transplantation in May. If the seeds be sown 

 as above directed about the middle of the month, they will 

 be in a proper state for transplantation about the end of May, 

 which is as soon as they can be planted out with safety. The 

 more curious sorts, either for their size or singular forms, will 



