HOME VEGETABLE GARDENING 
MOST POPULAR POT HERBS 
W HILE these can hardly be classed as vegetables, 
yet a few plants of each of the most popular cu- 
linary herbs deserve a place in every well-managed kitchen 
garden. While at present their usefulness is appreciated 
only in the making of soups, stews, or for flavoring dress- 
ing, the future will see them attain greater prominence, 
especially in connection with canning and preserving. 
Sage, as illustrated above, is, perhaps, the most generally 
grown of all herbs. The leaves are used to flavor dressing. 
Mint, Thyme, and Sweet Marjoram are useful in the 
making of sauces, to be served with fish, fowl, or meats. 
Borage and Dill are largely used in preserving of cucum- 
bers. Caroway is grown for the seeds with which bread 
and pastry are flavored. 
Since seeds of nearly all of above are of rather slow 
germination and the seedlings are very delicate, it is 
best to start them in the house, in a seed flat, as described 
and illustrated on page 22. 
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