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THE PRACTICAL GARDENER. 



France and Italy, and cultivated here since 159G. It is used for the same purpose 

 as the last 



Tansy, — Tanacetum vulgare, (Linn.) — belongs to the class and order Syngenesui 

 tuperfliia, and natural order Corymbifera. Is a native of many places in Britaia- 

 The young shoots and leaves are used to give flavor to puddings, &c. It is not 

 now so much used as formerly. 



Tarragon, — Artemisia Dracunculus, (Linn.) — belongs to the class and order 

 St/ngemsia superflua, and natural order Corymhifera. Is a native of Siberia, and 

 cultivated here since 1548. It is used as a pickle, and for fish-sauoe. In France it 

 is employed, on account of its agreeable pungency, to correct the coldness of salad- 

 herbs. It is also put into their soups and other compositions. 



Wood Sorrel, — Oxalis acetosella, (Lin'i.) — belongs to the class and order De- 

 candria Pentagynia, and natural order of Geraniaceee. Is a native of Britain, grow- 

 ing in almost all wood?, and appearing very early in spring. The leaves are an 

 agreeable salad, either alone or added to other salad-herbs ; and they commimicate 

 an agreeable flavor when boiled along with greens. 



A TABLE, 



Showing the Quantity of Seed or number of Roots necessary to Sow or 

 Plant in any given *pace. 



1. Alisander, or Alexanders. The seed is sold by weight; and if sown to trans- 

 plant for a bed, three feet and a half wide by six feet long, half an ounce will suf- 

 fice : if sown to remain in a drill, forty-eight feet in length, one ounce will be 

 requisite. 



2. Angelica. An ounce of seed will be requisite to sow a bed, from which the 

 plants will afterwards be transplanted, of twenty-four feet square. 



3. Artichoke. For a row at two feet apart, and four plants in each patch, of twenty 

 feet in length, forty plants will be necessar)-. 



4. Artichoke, Jerusalem. For a row of one hundred and twenty feet in length, 

 the roots being placed at two feet apart, half a peck or sixty roots will be suflScient, 



5. Asparagus. If sown to transplant, one quart of seed will sow a bed of thirty 

 square feet. If sown to remain for a bed, four feet and a half wide by thirty feet in 

 length, one pint is necessary. If plants a year old, a bed four feet and a half by 

 thirty feet in length, to contain four rows nine inches distant in the row, one hun- 

 dred and sixty plants will be required. 



6. Anise. One bed of twelve square feet will be suflicient for any family, for 

 w hich half an ounce of seed is enough. 



7. Basil. A quarter of an ounce will sow a seed-bed of four feet square, and when 

 transplanted, fill a bed of forty-eight square feet. 



8. Beans. For early crops, one pint of seed will be requisite for every eighty feet 

 of row ; for principal crops, two quarts for every two hundred and forty feet of row, 

 and for late crops, the same as for early. 



9. Beans, French or Kidney. For every eighty feet of row, the beans being at 

 two inches and a half or three inches apart, half a pint will be suflScient. 



10. Beet, Red. For every fifty feet of drill, one ounce is requisite. 



11. Beei, White. The same quantity as the last, and so of the other sorts. 



12. Borage. For a bed of twenty-four feet square, an ounce of seed is plenty. 



13. Burnet. Half an ounce of seed will sow a bed of twelve square feet. 



