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boiling sugar to a feather height, adding a concentrated infusion 
of horehound and boiling again until the same height. Stir until 
it grows thick, add a spoonful of butter, pour on a buttered dish and 
when cool enough cut in squares. 
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Horehound is a hardy perennial, dying to the ground in winter. 
It may be grown from seed or by division. 
26. HorserapisH (Cochlearia Armoracia). The root is grated 
and used as a condiment with fish, meats, etc.; also with cottage 
cheese as an appetizer. Rootlets should be cut from the main old 
root in October and stored in sand in a dry cool place until early 
spring when they may be planted in moist sandy soil and grown 
until dug for use. 
27. Hyssor (Hyssopus officinalis). Its rather skunk-like odor 
prevents our modern taste from enjoying hyssop in cooking, but its 
growth and purple spikes of bloom make it valuable for the her- 
baceous border. It grows about two feet high and will bloom a 
second time if cut back after the first. It grows from seed or 
division. The identity of the hyssop mentioned in the Bible has 
not been proven; it may not be this. 
28. LAVENDER (Lavandula vera) is used mostly as a perfume 
herb although the oil is also used in the paint industry in the mak- 
ing of certain lacquers. The scent of lavender is a stimulant and 
good for head weakness. The United States has imported 25,000 
Ibs. of the flowers annually from France, Spain, and the United 
Kingdom. The dried lavender of commerce is the buds (harvest 
when first flower opens), cut and dried on the stems, then stripped 
off and stored in air tight containers. A mixture of lavender and 
dried lemon verbena leaves in sheer muslin makes a delicious com- 
bination for pillow bags or for the linen cupboard. 
Lavender can be grown from seed, but is simpler from cutting's 
taken of green wood only, about two to three inches long, in early 
spring, and kept moist and shaded in light soil either in a cold frame 
or sheltered spot. Old shrubby plants should be cut back with 
discrimination, in spring, to encourage bushy growth and increase 
the bloom. Lavender should be grown on well dug land, sunny 
and sloping to the south, protected from prevailing winds and well 
drained. Oyster shells pulverized, and eggshells dug into the 

