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THE HERB-GARDEN 



and the gi'o^^i:h of borage, for the flavouring of 

 claret-cups. 



' Agam, the herb-garden is just the place for the 

 systematic culti\'ation of small saladmg. such as a 

 succession of young onions, a bed of chives, radishes, 

 rampion, lettuce, endive. All these would furnish 

 a good many beds, and by changmg those that are 

 not permanent for different products, a nice succes- 

 sion of cropping might be maintained. A parsley- 

 bed or beds must not be omitted, for nothing is 

 more useful in a household, alike for flavourmg or 

 garnishmg, and it is just as easy on a right system 

 to have fine leaves, exquisitely curled and clean, 

 because raised high above the ground by their 

 strength of stature, as to have and use the small 

 du'ty leaves that have to do duty as parsley in many 

 households. Let the parsley have a bed of rich, 

 deep soil ; sow the best curled seed tliinly ; as soon 

 as up thin the plants to six inches apart, and then 

 let them grow away freely. That is the whole art 

 of grooving and using parsley, and makmg it one of 

 the finest foliaged plants in the garden. Sow m 

 July for succession. If the garden of herbs is too 

 small for the devotion of one or more beds to 

 parsley sown at different seasons, then the whole 

 herb -garden might be fringed round ^\dth it. and 



