38 GARDENS OF ENGLAND 



Making the Herb Garden 



How to set about making and furnishing a herb 

 garden is the next question. No one must expect 

 a single border to contain all the herbs he will be 

 longing to grow. Some herbs require one aspect 

 and some another ; some like a moist place, some 

 a dry ; and soil, too, must vary, if we are to please 

 all the different kinds. No doubt the old super- 

 stition that plants are apt to quarrel among them- 

 selves and sometimes refuse absolutely to be 

 neighbourly, originated, in the first instance, in the 

 fact that there are great differences of opinion 

 among them as to the soil in which they like to 

 live. Rue wiU not grow with basil, so they say ; 

 radish detests hyssop ; and I know myself that 

 mint and parsley will never agree. 



Among herbs there are Annuals, Biennials, and 

 Perennials. 



Annuals, as a rule, do best where they can get 

 ample sunshine, but it will be found that those 

 which are thin-leaved will soon scorch up if exposed 

 to a very hot sun. Some of mine (among them 

 wormwood and Sweet Cicely) did badly for two 

 years on the south side of a fence. When moved 

 to the other side, where there was a little shade. 



