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close, and a new crop of leaves will be produced: this may be re- 
peated from time to time during the summer and autumn. 
Sowing Fot-herbs, <^c. 
Common and curled parsley may now be sown where it had been 
omitted in the former months, as may also the seeds of chervil, 
sweet basil, coriander, pot-marigold, borage and burnet; thyme, 
summer and winter savory, sweet and pot marjoram, together with 
many other sorts of pot, aromatic, or medicinal herbsj observing 
the same method as directed in page 205, which see. All those, 
with every other kind necessary, should be sown as early in the 
month as possible. 
Propagating Aromatic, Pot, and Medicinal Plants, by Cuttings 
and Slips, <^c. 
You may yet, if attended to in the early part of this month, pro- 
pagate the various kinds of pot, physical and aromatic plants men- 
tioned in page 205, and in like manner as there directed; but they 
will now require to be frequently watered, and if shaded for some 
time after planting, the better. 
Supporting Plants for seed. 
Now support the stems or stalks of such plants as were planted 
for seed. The onions and leeks in particular will require this 
care, for the stalks of these will be run up to a good height, and if 
they are not secured in due time, the winds and heavy rains will 
break them down. 
The best method of supporting these plants is to drive some firm 
stakes into the ground along the rows, placing them about two or 
three yards asunder: then let some thin long poles, or strong lines, 
be fastened from stake to stake, close along each side of the seed- 
stalks. 
Let the advancing stems of the different kinds of cabbages and 
other tall growing plants, that are now shooting to seed, and are 
subject to be borne down by wind or wet, be likewise supported by 
placing stakes to them and tying them thereto securely, or by any 
other more convenient method. 
Cardoons. 
The cardoons which were sown in March or April, ought now to 
be thinned where they have risen too thick, that the plants may 
have room to grow and get strength by next month, when they 
should be planted where they are to remain for landing up to blanch. 
Thin them to about four or five inches distance, or some may be 
pricked six inches asunder on a nursery-bed, to remain till next 
month, when the whole should be transplanted finally. 
Give water immediately to those that you prick out, and if 
sunny weather, shade will be necessary for a few days. 
