CHAPTER XXIII. 
HERBS, SWEET AND CONDIMENTAL. 
GREAT variety of plants, medicinal, fla- 
voring and decorative, are herbs, but we 
will consider only those used for cookery 
and usually called “sweet herbs.’’ The very 
name brings memories of fragrant smells. If 
we cannot all say, “I know a bank whereon 
the wild thyme grows,’ yet few who have ever 
known a garden are unacquainted with the 
odorous bed of thyme, sage and mint. Al- 
though there is not such heavy demand for them 
in this country as in Europe, yet their use is 
growing, the favorite being sage. 
Sweet herbs may be divided, both as to cul- 
ture and as to products, into two classes :—the 
annuals and the perennials: those grown for 
their foliage, and those for their fruits. All are 
easily grown and demand little attention, and 
though they may be bought at any drug store, 
yet they whohave once raised their own herbs find 
a pleasure in them that they will not like to miss. 
Annuals and perennials may be grown together 
and a very little plot of ground is enough to 
grow them all. Choose a place where they will 
not interfere with plowing and cultivating and let 
them stay, planting the annuals in the same place 
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