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mistake ; the Variegated Mint we bought, and the 

 common Water Mint required no looking for. 

 Does it not throw itself at our heads, as it were, or 

 rather feet, whenever summer wanderings lead us 

 by running rills, or river-banks, or watery meadows ? 

 Here it grows luxuriantly, smelling very strong and 

 nice, suggesting merry picnics and the washing-up 

 of cups and plates. 



Spear or Lamb Mint is grown, as a matter of 

 course, in every well-regulated garden. It is too 

 well known to need description, but may we say a 

 word here about Mint sauce ? Most of us like it 

 with roast lamb, but do we recognize how whole- 

 some is the Herb we are enjoying ? It is a valuable 

 condiment, which helps to make the immature meat 

 less indigestible. 'With bitter herbs shalt thou 

 eat it.' All the Jewish mandates were so sensible. 

 Remembering this one, what a halo of interest, 

 almost of romance, is thrown around the twentieth- 

 century dinner-table ! At the least, the homely 

 Herb when eaten thus, is a link with the long, long 

 past. 



Corn-Mint, like other Mints, has the power of 

 preventing milk from curdling, and I have heard 

 that cows which feed on it make trouble for the 

 dairy-maids, who cannot imagine why the milk will 



