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THE HERB-GARDEN 



the extreme modernity of this chapter, we have even 

 secured some Hnes of an up-to-date poet, whose 

 verses, written just in time, have as true a ring as if 

 they were a hundred years old. 



In the course of last July, while we were in the 

 midst of enjoying the aromatic pleasures of our 

 garden of Herbs, then greatly in perfection, we 

 were pleased to notice in the pages of a well- 

 known weekly periodical* a pleasant and useful 

 column devoted entirely to the subject of culinary 

 Herbs and their cultivation. We have the author s 

 permission to quote it, and are entirely in sympathy 

 with what is said, especially in the idea of using 

 Parsley as an edging plant ; it is what we frequently 

 do ourselves, thereby imitating the Greek gardeners 

 of old, who had such a habit of bordering their 

 gardens with Parsley and Rue that a saying arose 

 when an undertaking was contemplated, but not 

 yet commenced, * Oh, we are only at the Parsley 

 and Rue.' 



' A garden of herbs — there is savouriness in the 

 very name. And yet often the most unsatisfactory 

 things in gardens, especially small ones, are the 

 herbs. Scattered here and there all over the place, 

 they have mostly a ragged, neglected look, and are 



* Donald McDonald in The Queen for July 30, 1910. 



