172 



THE HERB-GARDEN 



Plaintaiii^ 133 



Pliny on Pennyroyal, 75 



Pot Marjoram, 57, 60 ; in Norfolk 



Garden, 61 

 Practical Use of Amateur Physic 



Garden, 138 

 Prunella, or Self-heal, 135 

 Pulmonaria, ]o(i; or Lungwort, 



135 

 Purslane, 25 ; in salads, 30 



Rampion, 35 ; cooked as Spinach, 

 39 ; cultivation of, 39 ; in 

 Grimm's Fairy Tales, 40 



Red Clover, 132 



Rock Camomile, 85 



Rock-loving Herbs, 16 



Rosemary, 116 ; at weddings, 118 ; 

 cultivation of, 118 ; for eau-de- 

 Cologne, 117; legend of the, 

 118 ; Sir Thomas More on, 118 ; 

 soil for, 117 



Roses in Herb-garden, old- 

 fashioned, 17 



Round-leafed Mint, 70 



Rue, 13, 81 ; at the Old Bailey 

 Sessions, 83 ; in exorcism, 83 ; 

 sandwiches of, in Germany, 82 



Saffron and canary birds, 95 ; and 

 Queen Elizabeth, 93 ; the true, 

 91 ; for golden hair, 95 ; in 

 Shakespeare, 94 ; Sir Francis 

 Bacon on, 95 



Saffron Walden, 93 



Sage, 57, 68, 59, 100 



St. John's Wort, magic of, 136 



Salad Burnet, 35 



Samphire, 143; cried as 'Crest 

 Marine,' 148 ; origin of the 

 name, 149 ; Shakespeare on, 

 148 



Santolina as a strewing Herb, 122 ; 

 or Lavender Cotton, llfl 



Sawyer, Sir James, on Tansy, 

 87 



Scented and Sweet Herbs at King 

 Edward VII. Sanatorium, 125 



Scents and Modern Physics, 126 ; 



leaf and flower, 116 ; sweet, 



wholesome, 124 

 Scurvy-grass, the ancient ' Herba 



Britannica,' 137 ; the sailor's 



Herb, 137 

 Sea-Holly, 145 

 Sea Tree-Mallow, 137 

 Seeds, buying or saving, 42^; 



' mothering,' 43 

 Self-cure of animals, 130 

 Silver Thyme, 59 

 Simpling, art of, 130 

 Size and shape of Herb-garden, 



17, 158 

 Skirrets, how to raise, 41 

 Small Herb-garden, 14 

 Smallage, 150 

 Soil, 13, 26, 96; for Lavender, 



120 ; for Winter Savor)-, 60 ; 



for Thyme, 60 ; for Angelica, 



144 

 Sorrel, 57 ; and the true Soupe 



aux herbes, 64 ; a terrible 



spreader, 64 

 Southernwood, 46 ; for the hair, 



121 ; to keep off moths, 121 

 Sowing tender annuals, 2(; 

 Spear Mint, 70 

 Speedwell, 133 

 Spikenard of Scripture, 107 

 Spring or Autumn planting, 15 

 Squills, 91, 92 ; as medicine, 93 

 Stitch-wort, 135 

 Stone edgings, 14 

 Summer Savory, 25 

 Sundial, 16 

 Sweet Bay, 117 ; or Poet's Laurel, 



122 

 Sweetbriar hedge, 17 

 Sweet Cicely {Myrrhi^ oriorata), 



57 ; use of seeds, 64 

 Sweet Green Basil, 25 ; and Turtle 



Soup, 28 

 Sweet Marjoram, 25, 27 

 Sweet SaVory in the modern 



kitchen, 30 

 Sweet scents, wholesome, 124 



