Sweet, Pot and Medicinal Herbs 



used in bread, cake and cookies, but just a toach 

 of caraway is a very piquant addition to salads. 

 Tarragon is used for making tarragon vinegar 

 — the leaves being steeped in pale cider or white 

 wine vinegar until the flavor is extracted and 

 then used in the concoction of salad dressing. 

 Dill is used principally for making dill pickles, 

 the leaves being laid alternately with the pickles 

 when laid down. Sweet fennel is used for 

 salads and soups and also for fish sauce. 



If one has a strip of land at one side of the 

 garden that is not needed, and can be con- 

 veniently skipped in the plowing, that will be the 

 place for the herb bed. The soil should be rich 

 and mellow and contain a fair proportion of 

 humus. A poor strip of land may be built up 

 by adding to it from season to season the old 

 manure from the hotbed; this is nearly reduced 

 to humus and the action of the elements will soon 

 complete its transformation. 



As many of the herbs are perennial it is best 

 that the bed should be a permanent one, not sub- 

 ject to annual disturbance. It should be long, 



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