. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. 0. Thyme, wormwood, marjoram, savory, and some otheraromatics, are cultivated inthe same manner, and for similar purposes. Being usually smaller plants, they shouldbe planted closer ; but to have much flavour the soil must be dry and calcareous. 6181. Chamomile ( A nthemis nobilis) is a creeping perennial, grown for its only requires to b
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. 0. Thyme, wormwood, marjoram, savory, and some otheraromatics, are cultivated inthe same manner, and for similar purposes. Being usually smaller plants, they shouldbe planted closer ; but to have much flavour the soil must be dry and calcareous. 6181. Chamomile ( A nthemis nobilis) is a creeping perennial, grown for its only requires to be planted on a poor soil, in rows a foot apart, and hoed will produce abundance of (lowers annually from June to September, which aregathered, and dried in the shade. They are sold by weight to the druggists and apothe-caries. The double-flowered variety is, from its beauty, that commonly cultivated ; butthe single possesses more of the virtues of the plant according to its weight. 618°. The mints (Jtfentha), and especially the peppermint (.Mentha piperita), arecreeping-rooted perennials, cultivated on rich marshy or soft black moist soils for dis-tilling. The plants are grown in beds with trenches of a foot or more in width and. Book VI. MARINE PLANTS. 915 depth between, so as to admit of irrigation. The sets are obtained from old plantations,and planted in rows across the beds at six inches distance every way, in March or produce worth notice is obtained in the first year, but a full crop in the third, andthe shoots will continue to produce for five or six years. The spikes of flowers, and insome cases the entire herbage, are cut over in June, as soon as the flowers expand, andcarried immediately to the druggists still. Some growers distil it themselves. 61S3. The common valerian ( officinalis L.) is sometimes cultivated for itsroots for the druggists. It is a native plant, and prefers a loamy soil. In Derbyshirethe plants, which are either pro
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