grow or get French Tarragon. Chervil 
needs partial shade to flourish. It thrives in 
rich soil full of humus—like good compost. 
Our seed of Chervil is carefully stored to 
preserve the vigor, which is found only in 
such freshly gathered and packaged seed. 
FENNEL FLOWER 
The curiously curved, coal black seeds 
of Fennel Flower, Nigella sativus, have a 
use and taste similar to poppy seeds. They 
are delicious when sprinkled over rolls, coffee 
cakes and cookies before baking. An easy 
annual with pretty blue flowers, Fennel 
Flower deserves a place among the flowers 
or annual herbs. 
BLUE FOR BEEs 
Gardeners will love Hyssop for the same 
reason the honey bees do—it blooms con- 
stantly and showily from July until No- 
vember if not allowed to go to seed. The 
well-filled spikes of bright flowers may be 
deep blue, pink or white, but seldom exceed 
two feet in height. This regularity of size 
plus the dark green leaves, which can be 
kept clipped like boxwood, make hardy 
perennial, Hyssopus officinalis, one of the 
thriftiest of edging plants. The pungent 
scent of this herb is a positive discourage- 
ment to insect pests and the shelter of the 
almost evergreen clumps is attractive to 
birds in winter. Hyssop usually blooms the 
first summer from spring-sown seeds. 
LAVENDER 
“Pm sorry for the people who sell sweet 
Lavender’’, because no one will buy it once 
they have grown their own. The clean 
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