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Sweet Marjoram, is used in Turkeys.
Summer Savory, ditto, and in Sausages and salted Beef, and legs of Pork.
Sage, is used in Cheese and Pork, but not generally approved.
Parsley, good in soups, and to garnish roast Beef, excellent with bread and
butter in the spring.
Penny Royal, is a high aromatic, although a spontaneous herb in old ploughed
fields, yet might be more generally cultivated in gardens, and used in cookery
and medicine.
Sweet Thyme, is most useful and best approved in cookery.
FRUITS.
Pears, There are many different kinds; but the large Bell Pear, sometimes called
the Pound Pear, the yellowist is the best, and in the same town they differ
essentially.
Hard Winter Pear, are innumerable in their qualities, are good in sauces, and
baked.
Harvest and Summer Pear are a tolerable desert, are much improved in this
country, as all other fruits are by grafting and inoculation.
Apples, are still more various, yet rigidly retain their own species, and are
highly useful in families, and ought to be more universally cultivated,
excepting in the compactest cities. There is not a single family but might set a
tree in some otherwise useless spot, which might serve the two fold use of shade
and fruit; on which 12 or 14 kinds of fruit trees might easily be engrafted, and
essentially preserve the orchard from the intrusion of boys, which is too
common in America. If the boy who thus planted a tree, and guarded and protected
it in a useless corner, and carefully engrafted different fruits, was to be
indulged free access into orchards, whilst the neglectful boy
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