CULINARY HERBS 



In these days of jaded appetites, condiments and 

 canned goods, how fondly we turn from the dreary 

 monotony of the "dainty" menu to the memory of 

 the satisfying dishes of our mothers! What made 

 us, like Oliver Twist, ask for more? Were those 

 flavors real, or was it association and natural, youth- 

 ful hunger that enticed us ? Can we ever 

 forget them; or, what is more practical, 

 can we again realize them? We may 

 find the secret and the answer in moth- 

 er's garden. Let's peep in. 



The garden, as in memory we view 

 it, is not remarkable except for its neat- 

 ness and perhaps the mixing of flowers, 

 fruits and vegetables as we never see 

 them jumbled on the table. Strawber- 

 ries and onions, carrots and currants, 

 potatoes and poppies, apples and sweet 

 corn and many other as strange com- 

 rades, all grow together in mother's 



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garden in the utmost harmony. 



All these are familiar friends ; but what are those 

 plants near the kitchen? They are "mother's sweet 

 herbs." We have never seen them on the table. 

 They never played leading roles such as those of the 

 cabbage and the potato. They are merely members 

 of "the cast" which performed the small but important 

 parts in the production of the pleasing tout ensemble 



