464 THE KITCHEN GARDEN. [Aug. 
beans, and all others that require that treatment. Water all new 
plantations, and such young advancing seedlings as may be im- 
proved thereby. Pull up the haulm and stalks of peas, beans, and 
cabbages, &c. which have done bearing, and carry them out of the 
garden, as well as all weeds, hoed or picked up. 
Herhs. 
Cut such herbs as are now in flower to distil, or to dry for winter 
use, always observing to do it when they are dry, and spread them 
in a dry, shady places for if they are dried in the sun, they will 
shrink up, turn black, and be of little value. 
You may now, if omitted in spring, or in the preceding months, 
plants slips of sage, rue, lavender, mastich, thyme, hyssop, and 
winter savory, &c., but these will not be near so strong, nor so 
capable of resisting the severity of the winter as those planted at 
an earlier period. 
Cut down the decayed flower stems of any kinds that appear 
unsightly; and at the same time it will be proper to shorten all the 
straggling young branches in order to keep the plants in due com- 
pass, which will cause them to produce fresh shoots, and make the 
plants appear neat during the remainder of the season. This should 
be done, if possible, in moist or cloudy weather. 
Corn- Salad. 
The Valeriana locusta, variety olitoria, grows commonly in the 
cornfields in many parts of Europe; hence, it is called corn-salad; 
and from its being sufficiently hardy to stand the winter, and of 
early growth in spring, has acquired the appellation of lamb's-let- 
tuce, from its affording them an early pasturage. 
This is an annual plant, and is cultivated as an esculent herb in 
salads for winter and early spring use. It should be sown in the 
middle states in the last week of this month, or first in September, 
on a dry soil and open situation, and raked in; the plants will come 
up soon after, and should be thinned to two or three inches asun- 
der; they are used during the winter and early spring months in 
composition with lettuce and other salad herbs, and as a substitute 
for these where deficient. 
Winter Cresses. 
The Erysimum harharea, or winter cress, is used for the same 
purpose, sown at the same time, and treated in like manner as di- 
rected above for corn-salad. This plant is, by the market-garden- 
ers about Philadelphia, called scurvy-grass, to which it is by no 
means allied; the latter being the Cochlearia officinalis of Linn., 
which has rather a disagreeable smell, and a warm, bitter taste, by 
no means palatable as a salad. The winter cresses, if sown in the 
last week of this month, or first in September, on a dry soil and 
warm exposure, will afford an early salad in spring, very pleasing 
