==Marigold, Pot== (=Calendula officinalis=).—­Employed both in flower and vegetable gardens:  in the former as a bedding annual, and in the latter that the flowers may be dried and stored for colouring and flavouring soups; also for distilling.  In April or May sow the seed in drills one foot apart, and thin the plants to the same distance in the rows.

==Marjoram, Pot== (=Origanum Onites=).—­One of the most familiar Herbs in British gardens.  The aromatic leaves are used both green and when dried for flavouring.  Strictly the plant is a perennial, but it is readily grown as an annual.  Sow in February or March in gentle heat, and in the open ground a month later.  The plants should be allowed a space often inches or a foot each way.

==Marjoram, Sweet Knotted== (=Origanum Majorana=).—­This plant is used for culinary purposes in the same way as the Pot Marjoram, and it is also regarded as a tonic and stomachic.  The most satisfactory mode of cultivation is that of a half-hardy annual.  Sow in March or April and allow each plant a square foot of ground.

==Mint== (=Mentha viridis=).—­Known also as Spearmint.  It must be grown from divisions.  Between the delicacy of fresh young green leaves and those which have been dried with the utmost care there is so wide a difference that the practice of forcing from November to May is fully justified.  This is easily accomplished by packing roots in a box and keeping them moist in a temperature of 60 deg..  Where this is impossible, stems must be cut, bunched, and hung in a cool store for use during winter and spring.  Mint grows vigorously in damp soil, and the bed should have occasional attention, to prevent plants from extending beyond their proper boundary.  To secure young and luxuriant growth a fresh plantation should be made annually in February or March.  If allowed to occupy the same plot of land year after year the leaves become small and the stems wiry.

==Parsley== (=Carum Petroselinum=) will teach those who have eyes exactly how it should be grown.  There will appear here and there in a garden stray or rogue Parsley plants.  No matter how regularly the hoeing and weeding may be done, a stray Parsley plant will occasionally appear alone, perhaps in the midst of Lettuces, or Cauliflowers, or Onions.  When these rogues escape destruction they become superb plants, and the gardener sometimes leaves them to enjoy the conditions they have selected, and in which they evidently prosper.  The lesson for the cultivator is, that Parsley should have plenty of room from the very first; and this lesson, we feel bound to say, cannot be too often enforced upon young gardeners, for they are apt to sow Parsley far more thickly than is wise, and to be injuriously slow and timid in thinning the crop when the plants are crowding one another.