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THE HERB-GARDEN 



Plaintain, 183 



Plinv on Pennyroyal^ 75 



Pot Marjoram^ 57^ 60 ; in Norfolk 



Garden^ 61 

 Practical Use of Amateur Physic 



Garden, 138 

 Prunella, or Self-heal, 135 

 Pulmonaria, 136 ; or Lungwort, 



135 



Purslane, 25 ; in salads, 30 



Rampion, 35 ; cooked as Spinach, 

 39 ; cultivation of, 89 ; in 

 Grimm s Fairij Tales, 40 



Red Clover, 132 



Rock Camomile, 85 



Rock-loving Herbs, 16 



Rosemary, 116 ; at weddings, 118 ; 

 cultivation of, 118 ; for eau de- 

 Cologne, 117 ; legend of the, 

 118 ; Sir Thomas More on, 118 ; 

 soil for, 117 



Roses in Herb-garden, old- 

 fashioned, 17 



Round-leafed Mint, 70 



Rue, 13, 81 ; at the Old Bailey 

 Sessions, 83 ; in exorcism, 88 ; 

 sandwiches of, in Germany, 82 



Saffron and canary birds, 95 ; and 

 Queen Elizabeth, 98 ; the true, 

 91 ; for golden hair, 95 ; in 

 Shakespeare, 94 ; Sir Francis 

 Bacon on, 95 



Saffron Walden, 93 



Sage, 57, 58, 59, 100 



St. John's Wort, magic of, 186 



Salad Burnet, 35 



Samphire, 143; cried as ^ Crest 

 Marine,' 148 ; origin of the 

 name, 149 ; Shakespeare on, 

 148 



Santolinaas a strewing Herb, 122 ; 



or Lavender Cotton, 116 

 Sawyer, Sir James, on Tansy, 



87 



Scented and Sweet Herbs at King 

 Edward VII. Sanatorium, 125 



Scents and Modern Physics, 126 ; 



leaf and flower, 116 ; sweet, 



wholesome, 124 

 Scurvy-grass, the ancient ' Herba 



Britannica,^ 137 ; the sailor's 



Herb, 137 

 Sea-Holly, 145 

 Sea Tree-Mallow, 187 

 Seeds, buying or saving, 42 ; 



^ mothering,^ 43 

 Self-cure of animals, 130 

 Silver Thyme, 59 

 Simpling, art of, 130 

 Size and shape of Herb-garden, 



17, 158 

 Skirrets, how to raise, 41 

 Small Herb-garden, 14 

 Smallage, 150 



Soil, 13, 26, 96; for Lavender, 

 120; for Winter Savory, 60; 

 for Thyme, 60 ; for Angelica, 

 144 ■ 



Sorrel, 57 ; and the true Soupe 

 aux hei'bes, 64 ; a terrible 

 spreader, 64 



Southernwood, 46 ; for the hair, 

 121 ; to keep off moths, 121 



Sowing tender annuals, 26 



Spear Mint, 70 



Speedwell, 133 



Spikenard of Scripture, 107 



Spring or Autumn planting, 15 



Squills, 91, 92 ; as medicine, 93 



Stitch-wort, 185 



Stone edgings, 14 



Summer Savory, 25 



Sundial, 16 



Sweet Bay, 117 ; or Poet's Laurel, 

 122 



Sweetbriar hedge, 17 



Sweet Cicely {Myrrhis odorata), 



57 ; use of seeds, 64 

 Sweet Green Basil, 25 ; and Turtle 



Soup, 28 

 Sweet Marjoram, 25, 27 

 Sweet Savory in the modern 



kitchen, 30 

 Sweet scents, wholesome, 124 



