The compleat gardeners practice, directing the exact way of gardening in three parts : the garden of pleasure, physical garden, kitchin garden : how they are to be ordered for their best situation and improvement, with variety of artificial knots for the by Stephen Blake, gardener.

Balm.

Balm beareth a seed which it may be raised of, but the Herb is so common that it is needless to trouble you with its description. The time that they usually set the slip of this Herb is in the beginning of April, if in case that you can get but few of the roots, they may be slipt into many parts, and each part will grow if it have but part of the branch with it. The place that it is usually planted in, is in beds by it self of two foot and an half broad, four rows of it in a bed, and let it have all the bed to it self, and let it be well watered at the first planting, it requireth no more trouble, but springeth yearly: The dead branches would be cut off when Winter cometh.