Making the Herb Garden 
The collector of rose jars and potpourri 
recipes would reserve several plots for fragrant 
plants. Physicians and students of pharmacology 
often enjoy assembling the important drug plants 
in their herb gardens. The following proposed 
garden plan is a composite of all these types 
with the choice of material guided by standards 
of beauty as well as of usefulness. Full consid- 
eration must be given to the individual require- 
ments of each plant as well as the pattern to 
which it must conform. There is no more unattrac- 
tive sight than as unhappy plant languishing in 
too much shade or one shriveled by unwelcome 
exposure to sun and wind. 
Starting Plants 
The greater part of the plant material for 
the herb garden can be grown from seed sown in 
the spring. For reasons of economy,as well as for 
the experience of watching the plants unfold 
leaf by leaf from the seedling stage ,starting 
with seed wherever possible, is most advisable. 
When the garden is well under way the first summer 
1s time enough to purchase roots of clones such 
as French Tarragon or plants for which no seed 
is available such as Sweet Woodruff and Germander. 
These may be placed in a nursery bed for propa- 
gation the first season. By taking cuttings and 
layerings a few purchased plants may provide 
enough offshoots to border a bed or carpet a flag- 
stone terrace another year. 
