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may be separated and planted for increase, in beds or borders, at 
the distance often or twelve inches asunder; this would have been 
better if done last month, but they will succeed any time in this, if 
well watered immediately after plantint^, and repeated at intervals 
for a few days. When the plants shoot up to seed, cut them down 
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 Pot-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, bi^rage and burnet; 
thyme, summer, and winter savory, sweet, and pot marjoram, to- 
gether with many other sorts of pot, aromatic, or medicinal herbs; 
observing the same method as directed in page 207, 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, hy 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 206, 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 he 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. 
