. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1752 SWEET HERBS SWEET PEA duly awakened to the uses of herbs, improvements in growing, handling, and in the plants themselves will naturally follow, to the pleasure and profit of all. In this country the herbs best known and appreciated are parsley, sage, thyme, savory, marjoram, spearmint, dill, fennel, tarra
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1752 SWEET HERBS SWEET PEA duly awakened to the uses of herbs, improvements in growing, handling, and in the plants themselves will naturally follow, to the pleasure and profit of all. In this country the herbs best known and appreciated are parsley, sage, thyme, savory, marjoram, spearmint, dill, fennel, tarragon, balm and basil, arranged approxi- mately in their order of importance. Since parsley is more extensively used as a garnish than any other garden plant, it is grown upon a larger scale than all other herbs combined. Hence some seedsmen do not rank parsley with Sweet Herbs. Sage is the universal flavoring for sausage and the seasoning par excellence for rich meats such as pork, goose and duck. It is more widely cultivated than thyme, savory and marjoram, which have more delicate flavors and are more popular for seasoning mild meats, such as turkey, chicken and veal. With the exception of spearmint, without which spring lamb is deemed insipid, and the famous mint julep, a thing of little worth, the remaining herbs mentioned above are scarcely seen outside our large city markets, and even there thej' have only a very limited sale, being re- stricted mainly to the foreign population and to such restaurants and hotels as have an epicurean patronage. In many market-gardens both near to, and remote from, the large cities, sweet herbs form no small source of profit, since most of them, when properly packed, can be shipped in the green state even a con- siderable distance, and when the market is over-sup- plied they can be dried by the grower and sold during the winter. Probably more than one-half the quantities used throughout the country are disposed of in the latter manner. As a
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