. Culinary herbs; their cultivation, harvesting, curing and uses. Herbs. I30 CULINARY HERBS. Dainty Summer Savory pean perennial of t h e Umbellifer^e, common along rocky sea coasts and cliffs beyond the reach of the tide. From its creeping rootstocks short, sturdy, more or less widely branched stems arise. These bear two or three thick, fl e s h y segmented leaves and umbels of small whitish flowers, followed by yellow, elliptical, convex, ribbed, very light seeds, which rarely retain their germinating power more than a year. In gardens the seed is therefore gener- ally sown in the autumn as
. Culinary herbs; their cultivation, harvesting, curing and uses. Herbs. I30 CULINARY HERBS. Dainty Summer Savory pean perennial of t h e Umbellifer^e, common along rocky sea coasts and cliffs beyond the reach of the tide. From its creeping rootstocks short, sturdy, more or less widely branched stems arise. These bear two or three thick, fl e s h y segmented leaves and umbels of small whitish flowers, followed by yellow, elliptical, convex, ribbed, very light seeds, which rarely retain their germinating power more than a year. In gardens the seed is therefore gener- ally sown in the autumn as soon as mature in fairly rich, light, well- drained loam. The seedlings should be protected with a mulch of straw,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Kains, M. G. (Maurice Grenville), 1868-1946. New York, Orange Judd company; [etc. , etc. ]
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