CHAPTER III 



ANNUAL AND BIENNIAL POT-HERBS : TENDER 



' Come, buy my knotted Marjoram, ho !' 



The Cries of London. 



' Here's flowers for you, 

 Hot Lavender, Mints, Savory, Marjoram.' 



Winter's Tale. 



Many of the most useful of kitchen Herbs are 

 grown from seed. They may be either annuals 

 or biennials. We take the annuals first, and will 

 begin with a few of the tender ones. In their 

 native country several of these plants would be 

 perennials, but because they cannot stand our 

 winters and are killed by frost we have to treat 

 them as annuals. The tender annuals include 

 Sweet Marjoram, 0?'iganum Marjorana ; Sweet 

 Green Basil, Ocymum Basilicum ; Bush Sweet 

 Basil, Ocymum minimum ; and Summer Savory, 

 Satureia hortensis. Also the less familiar Pur- 



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