Making the Herb Carden 
vegetable garden where they may benefit by oc- 
casional side dressing of fertilizer. Try to 
keep manure out of the herb garden. It is likely 
to harbor a fungus which causes rust on the Mints 
When this happens, there seems to be no cure but 
to burn the old plants and start new roots in an 
uninfected bed. 
Well-rotted compost and garden lime are the 
only growth stimulants needed for the established 
herb garden. The former should be dug into the 
parts of the beds occupied by transplanted per - 
ennials and annuals in early spring. Lavender 
and Rosemary, particularly,benefit by the addition 
of lime to the soil around their roots but not 
close enough to burn them. 
Design and Motif 
Every garden needs definition. In choosing a 
design,it may be possible to make use of some 
existing wall or hedge to serve as a portion of 
the frame for the planting. Often an old found- 
ation wall of a former outbuilding will prove a 
Suggestion for a sunken garden. Such a layout 
has many advantages for herbs because it is a 
pleasing sight to look down upon the patterns 
made by grey and green foliage plants and the 
banks of the sides provide shelter for the tender 
varieties. 
Where no permanent perimeter of lasting 
beauty can be constructed before the garden 1s 
made, some of the shrubby perennials like Hyssop 
