. The natural history of the farm; a guide to the practical study of the sources of our living in wild nature. Natural history. 246 NATURAL HISTORY OP THE FARM vegetable products, add to the zest of our eating and to the value of our diet. Of vegetable flavorings there is no end. There are acid flavors, like those of the leaves of the sorrels, long since supplanted in our diet by artificially prepared vinegars (yet what child of the field does not still nibble at sorrel leaves?). There are pungent flavors in the peppers and in many crucifers—in the leaves of the cresses, in the roots of radish
. The natural history of the farm; a guide to the practical study of the sources of our living in wild nature. Natural history. 246 NATURAL HISTORY OP THE FARM vegetable products, add to the zest of our eating and to the value of our diet. Of vegetable flavorings there is no end. There are acid flavors, like those of the leaves of the sorrels, long since supplanted in our diet by artificially prepared vinegars (yet what child of the field does not still nibble at sorrel leaves?). There are pungent flavors in the peppers and in many crucifers—in the leaves of the cresses, in the roots of radish and horse-radish, and in the seeds of pepper- grass and of mustard. It is flavor and not food that children get from chewing mallow "cheeses" (fig. 93), or slippery- ekn bark, or linden buds. There are pleasant oleraceous flavors in kale and cabbage and catiliflower; and then there are the flavors of the savory herbs, the subject of this study. The beasts also desire these pleasant adjuncts to their diet. Cats like catnip and valerian. Dogs like certain of the goose foots. Cattle love to crop the twigs of apple and hawthorn Fig 94. A pair of leaves of catnip. and eVCn the shootS of the poison-ivy and other plants that are to us harmful. Wild deer are fond of nettles. Horses like their hay best when it is fragrant with the natural aromatic oUs of certain of the grasses, well preserved by proper ctiring. It is noticeable that in these animals, as in ourselves, taste and smell are intimately associated. The cat not only bites the leaves of the catnip to taste them, but he sniffs of them and roUs himself upon them, so as to carry the aroma with hitn. Then he licks his fur in complete satis- faction. Savory herbs, possessing fine aromatic scents and flavors, have been sought out and used by all the races of men. They have figured in the ceremonials of all religions, serving for perfume, for incense, or for purification. They have served in. Please note that these images
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