or by any
a
that they rubbed
herbs are
aconite
flying forever.
was
Viell,
homeo-
it
your home,
keep this
pressure,
long.
neuralgic pains.
dose,
aconite
was
long
ago
be used for any
entire
tral and
poisoning
been mistaken for
sufficient quantities
herb? Its curiously
the
can be attractively
fall
and
can
be
grown
you add
this plant
CULTIVATION
Aconite
can
be
grown
year,
dig
up
the
should be
 
gargles, then spits in the sink. She pats her mouth
dv\
with
hair
with
agrimony
to
clear
HISTORY
its properties.
The strangest use of agrimony was in an old remedy
for internal
hemorrhages. Herbalists
mixed it
a
treat wounds.
it for
your
pillow
rather
green perennial herb
United
tral
Chinese
herbalists
the
urine.
Even
the
agrimony  helps them that
with
help cure
cases
of
tapeworm.
should
see
your
physi-
to
4
from
the
might develop.
stating that he wouldn't
can
aching
ob-
established.
Plant
seedlings
their bodies
In many countries,
the
gel
of
aloe
The Greek historian
recorded use of aloe as a healing herb 2,000 years
ago.
to
People
believed
scalps.
constipation,
^X'ord of
ever\'^'here.
It is
USES
of aloe
ivy.
The
folk-
of its
abound.
numerous clinical studies into
its efficacy; and scientists
the
severit\'
of
In folk
medicine, aloe
cancer.
James
search for
than
\\hen
are
perennial
aibben,'
Bermuda, the Bahamas, the
Texas. Common domestic
sig-
that
age.
Internally,
a
severe intestinal pain; therefore, it is not used for this
purpose
very
ailments including amenorrhea,
of
attractive
stunning
set
against
a
plain
back-
ground
to
show
 
preserve her
beauty-. Josephine,
for
soil, separate the
is very
important, so
pass
through
easily.
Aloes
are fully
moderately dr)'. In the
good
soil.
^'hen
you
harvest,
cut
oldest.
wax)' wool
bugs
have
infested
ALOE
ing them.
heal-
ing.
GROWING
CONDITIONS
stitmens; accompanied by
cover your
likely
over it
herbalist. Veratrum viride
if
you
for it, using the
the injury', then
sores.
To
for such
occasionally for
flowers,
was often
placed in
find many),
try growing
of
foliage.
one. Many
its
these
here
angelica
'\s
Angelica
in the lake
region of what
ancient
other
plant?
angelica.
spirits and
for their children to
pared in
the
a
but
1934.
lems: to discharge mucus
a
sagebrush,
to
also applied
to swellings.
The Indians
and
to
build
up
strength
after
been associated
with this
uses
into
a
fine
tea;
the
oil
of
bathwater for
leaves
is
reported
to
after dinner.
used today
A
leaves
seeds were even
seeds
boiled
cooking
water.
ANGELICA-
-continued
are
angelica
small
James
Duke,
(but
cites evidence
a
flavor
a
ground, the leaves zip up the flavor in desserts and
pastries. Gently
in yeast breads, quick
use
it
to
angelica
years.
the stems and roots are eaten raw with butter. Cut
them and prepare them
the middle of the afternoon, during that long, slow hour
between
two
and
dried
Many
this herb
used to
the seeds
border plant,
umbels, but keep
want
to
Division and
work
as
germinate. The conventional
Earthworks Herb Garden
by
thoroughly dr%'
dies after
disrupted
by
form.
plants periodically for
pests and
what is to be gathered. Han'est
roots
first
Flowers:
styles.
tooth-
less.
Fruit:
ever developed,
as
the bait. Most people don't think of anise in terms of
populanty
with
found
it
HISTORY
his-
mathematician
and
contemplating the
zures in epileptics.
known
odors
from
the
mouth, if chewed in the morning, a use that is still
recommended today. Pliny
youthful appearance, and he iinay have been the source of
the idea
that anise
flavor,
and
with other savory spices
it was
outgrowth
by the Romans
to pay tiixes.
the
reputation as
for improving di-
the direct
in folk medicine
has been examined
cookies.
is
and fennel seed in
vodka.
world. The French
of course, ouzo
anise
substi-
tute
for
anise.
GROWING
CONDITIONS
toothpastes
dogs;
they
love
a sack saturated
In
greyhound
CULTIVATION
Anise
makes transplanting
seed.
Seeds
wind damaged.
open.
laid
in
the
containers. If
that
will
some time
U.S.
Pharmacopoeia
Dispetisator^:
USES
Recipes
for
healing
liniments
tions contain arnica. It is also an important homeopathic remedy.
Medicinal:
inflammation of
two
To make
oil for several hours. Strain
and
individuals. If this
extracts
and circulaton^ system of small animals
have verified
but
in
addition,
arnica
ma-
ture;
to
and, more
poisons known
man. As the English herbalist William Turner described it in
1563,
will
the
and bloody diarrhoea.
a
Theophrastus wrote that
own-
ers,
centuries, autumn crocus has
nearly
150
years,
a great
Medicinal; The
alkaloid
colchicine
intravenously
for
pa-
attxick
and
prevents
cjuite
by
fever
and
cell
Toxicity: Colchicine can
been fatal, although the usual lethal
dose is 65 milligrams. Even
therapeutic
crocus leaves
vessels.
Ornamental:
autumn crocus
At
the
New
York
Botanical
Garden,
they
covering
on
tical, spiny teeth around
to
the dried
stout
but
seed
was
taken
to
prevent
the
plague.
decoctions
debilirs' and
modern scientists,
gargle
by
crushing
barberr\',
berberine,
is
bowel to help
the dried root in water and then let it cool.
Twentieth-century
water, boiled slowly for
suggests
briefly
5
minutes.
Utboratory
studies
with
bronchial constric-
uon. Berberine
lant
properties.
If
foliage is quite
a
few
inches
You can
The
brilliantly
of their
foliage in
col-
air,
It will add
with the red berries.
be
candied.
Substitute:
Cranberries
roots
for
making
yellow
dye.
summer or fall for
to
good.
To
cold frames, or
produce rooted
suckers, which
shelter barberries
appearance.
and
still
of basil on the
window-
advised
to
and
pesto and
served it
a
of Sietia
being won-
frequently
to
take the Powder of the dry Herb, and snuff it up his
Nose; but in
and died; and his
some
name
is
a
more highly than
kings. It is
 Vishnu and Krishna.
world and
for digestive
afterdinner
cup
of
gas. Steep a
James
Duke,
of
Medicinal
Herbs
ihdi
used
externally
on
poaching fish, shellfish, or
for
show
no studies
taste and
aroma will
mildly
peppery
mince them and
pasta,
rice,
toma-
toes,
cheese,
Basil adds snap
basil
oil,
ready
to
use
the
three months.
tightly
sealed
containers.
Available
commercially:
Dried,
sauces and fresh;
without
basil,
but
dark
borders,
miniature
basil
is
a
superb
other
Thai cooking
stomachaches
fresh flower
tractive
ingredients
in
the
liqueur
Chartreuse.
CULTIVATION
grow
good
shout and curse
when sowing the
scream at this herb
from
seed.
spring
when
you
when
the
soil
has
warmed
between them.
75°
to
medium.
seeds.
prevent
Remove
2 inch pots or into flats. When the weather has
warmed
up,
before
planting.
Mulching
beneficial to
mulch basil
it flow-
them.
Harvesting
up at
inter-
do. Go
some
candles
—herb-
your
water.
Let
your
arms
float.
course,
their
healing
and
beautifying
propenies
as
well.
the
steep
for
a
while
before
removing
it
squeeze
you can from
An
even
a
add some
method for preparing an herbal bath is to make a
strong
infusion
Vi
cup
of
dried
to the bath.
herbs
to
cold
A
decoction
though the
your
close
attention to the temperature of the water. Warm baths relax muscles,
while cool baths stimulate
the body. Most physicians
you need some pep
70°
to
have
dia-
betes,
a
simply leave
Experiment with
to get you started.
bathing
in the bath relieves
skin
include:
of
valerian
or
V2
pound
lady's mantle, mint, and plantain are all said to help
heal inflammations and generally
are both reponed
oils that rise
her seventies, Ninon
most
a
frey roots, and thyme. Make
an infusion in
a quart of
virtuous
oils
to
the
Simply
vegetable or
nut oil
and
add
the
herbal
oil.
from Herbs). Collect
several vials of
to prepare your bath, you
can choose
the water if
fragrance.
Stan
with
a
'WTien
add
it.
To
bath, first
minutes
in
the
bath
wreaths of
soups,
HISTORY
x\pollo, the Greek god of the sun,
smitten
with Apollo. (This was all Cupid's doing. He shot an
anov,- into Daphne that made her hate Apollo.)
To
into
a
laurel
tree.
a
his head
women
776 B.C., laurel garlands were
presented to the champions.
you
During
storms,
place
where
thunder,
or
lightning.
had to
for
snakebites,
Perhaps it
and as
lobed calyxes, greenish
xxils.
Leaves:
Alternate,
shiny,
commercial cultivation in Tur-
wrote in
Richard 11.
'Tis thought
they caught a
Medicinal: You may find
scientifically,
but
you
can
and joints, rub
commercially. Again, the efficacy of this remedy hasn't been
proven.
narcotic,
bactericidal and fungicidal properties. It contains eugenol, which
has
with
to
be
safe.
Culinary:
Bay
may
not
sauce
is
visited
by
this
with
game.
Use
citrus, and prepared
have dined
 
mers, such
be
terraces,
and
themselves
well
to
standards.
much lighter, but the shape of the leaves remains. Place
a
tussie-mussie. Add them to an herb wreath. They work well
in
a
live
wreath,
herbs, and the stoutness of the leaves and branches pro-
\'ides
Cosmetic:
The
to the bathwater Simply
bath, or
age—
of
green shoots seem
town, Pennsylvania, gave Presi-
States from Belgium
37
in
appearance,
bayberry
sur-
vives
salty
air.
being
tonic,
bly
nasal
to
heal
ulcers,
cuts,
consider
this
78
weeks
concludes
a useful
drug for
spot
where a lot
of bayberry bushes grow. It takes 1 bushel of these tiny fruits to make
4 pounds of
wax. You can
the
Cosmetic:
They should be cut
flower bed.
beverages.
or
float
in an area of
author
James
Fenimore
and the
is often reported as
for pleasure and for
of
its
settlement near
cultivated widely
in Europe. It crossed the ocean in the midl^OOs when
John
Bartram
trav-
where
it
is
USES
use.
With
.
.
go
down.
beebalm. This remedy goes
ies have been
uses,
at least
square stems.
Beebalm effuses
rests on a
collar of red-tinged
lower lip
than
the
tario.
HABITAT
has
been
hookworms,
but
in
the
and other symptoms, so its use has declined. Today, thymol
js
citms with
a soft
leaves fresh in cooking
meat sausages, and curries. The citrusy flavor of beebalm natu-
rally complements
many fruits:
in combination with mint.
to flavor
leaves can
be used
in the
adds
a
the scent of potpourris.
The entire plant emits
a
flow-
will
to
sometimes used
could resist
colors: pink, white, violet,
ability
infusions
of
beebalm
stimulate
the
skin.
Craft: The dried flowers lose some brilliance of form and color,
but they
wreaths or
tomatoes.
CULTIVATION
ture well.
however,
because
this
herb
cross-pollinates
so
readily,
the
plants
do
harvesting
plant them within the
occur in about
parent, increase
beebalm by
Leave
a
clumps
Jersey
suggests
that you rejuvenate beebalm that has grown in one spot for
more than
three years.
shoots from the outside of the clump. The plants should
be
if
a
cold
to within 1 inch of
the ground as soon as the
lower leaves
for two
shady place. If the leaves have not dried in this
time,
pro-
ender blossom.
red blossom.
an interrupted
and
sta-
ca-
places
along
stem.
Leaves:
Deep
per
leaves
tivated.
HABITAT
Grows
last night, and
branches of trees,
snuggle up under
the glass
tea
to
boil.
but
the regard
people had for this plant. Indeed, if a person had as
many
virtues
as
must
have
been
as a
cure for
a
betony
warded
and Witchcraft
free
from
all
mischief.
USES
Medicinal:
Herbalist
John
But Purdue University pharmacognosist
and diarrhea.
Other healing vinues
as a
Union found that betony
area
before
black
tea.
Tr)'
tive, papery bark. It grows fast
but does not
live long, having
Birches can generally be
of
tnink in
kins;
Height:
40-90
ft.
RANGE
White,
paper,
ica
from
with
a
Woods,
caused
The Indians passed on this knowledge to the white frontiers-
men, who
to cure
nasal infections.
papyrifera.
durable and
in
off with
of the white spruce, rendered
supple
canoes
weighed
little—
four-passenger
branches
disobedient
children.
Better
to
use
the
room, surely you'll want
pleasure of its
the
make
a
hot
on
skin
to a boil. Stir in 1
gallon
liquid
for
store
out
birches prosper
colored barks
of evergreens such
BIRCH-
-continued
over the land. Watch the breeze rustle the leaves and lift
the branches
on the
its
slender
beautiful placed near
water reflects
a
need
some
protection
being
refreshes the skin when
a
Ozarks, people chew the twigs of B. lenta
to clean their teeth.
do
not
require
the ripe, brown,
Sow birch
of the soil.
summer. When
many
because
it signified to
their homes to
ward
people believed, however, that witches employed the herb in
their
air
it
poisons.
Medicinal:
Although
the
tumors,
used
carefully controlled, infinitesimal doses.
glucosides,
discovering it in
as
it
can
be
used in open woodland settings. Grow it alone or in groups.
CULTIVATION
again in the
underground.
What
appears
aboveground
is
a
toothed leaflets;
basal but
the root or pluck a leaf
from this plain
Indians
it
to
throats, fevers, and
juice on
The white man also found medicinal purposes
for it. Bloodroot
Pharmacopoeia from
duced by the alkaloid
creases peristalsis in
often been
and preparations
bloodroot were
medicinal claims
treating
cancers
actions on
the body, it could have some negative ones, too. No
cases
James
treatment
with
insignificant
really is
Be-
it
vai. plena) produces addi-
tional petals instead of
and
be used fresh
with
4
'/4
gallons
plant
hence
the
name
ble
glands;
a
healer
American Indians, the herb of choice when it came
to
of
medicine
you
find
a
scribe blue cohosh for
of
effects. Methylc^tisine stimulates
blood
Toxicity:
that caulosaponin
which
has
muscle.
Thus,
cohosh is decorative
woodland
setting
done
a
a popular
is chiefly
a
some sense. What doesn't make
sense,
Used
extensively
by
American
as a cough, cold, and fever
remedy during
the eighteenth
its popularity'
well
leaves and flowers
were steeped in
to
doses. Drunk
a
weed.
Varro
boneset
have
revealed
indicates
it grows wild in
refers
to
America.
HABITAT
What
What
have
to
those
who
ate
HISTORY
Borage's
drank wine
)
ago.
Gerard
but this is
the sense
be
minde
crease the
meaning
Burrage hath an
before
an
could
drink
a
were
the home.
Poultices made from
so are applied
to external inflammations
slight
constipation.
joy is as a
fresh
splendid
decorations
them
an herb
garden well,
CHEF TIPS
minced
leaves and stems in water.
Use
the
sirawberr\' fruit ice.
borage. Bees love the flowers.
CULTIVATION
Borage
is
easily
grown
from
seed.
passed.
feet. Borage
itself.
best fertilizer.
well aerated, and hoed
quite young;
and give
branches
medi-
cine
too
dangerous
to
use.
Toxicity:-
The
flowering
(vomiting)
reactions.
Scientific
slows down
of this, it was
used therapeutically to slow the pulse in cardiac disturbances and to
induce labor.
however,
because
they
the looker
lush,
can be sandy or
be too
best
time
to
worn-
about
insect
infestation
and
disease,
the
169.)
Flowers:
Pea-shaped,
tw'O-
lipped.
yellow,
V,
ally
it, burdock
 How full of briers
in holiday
foolery. If we walk not in the trodden paths, our
very petticoats will
catch them. (The
over the
drank
a
cup
hallucinating.
were
puz-
zled.
Atropine,
a
poisonous
concentration
gests
Purdue University. No one
in the tea
belladonna root itself had
your herbs from a reliable source.
Herbalists
use
purifier
Herbalists
consider
it
a
As twenti-
all individ-
uals; for
used
in
treating
1 Vi pints
20 minutes; he
and once
to a
boil. He
One colorful
It's an old
 B>' its [burdock's]
falls
out; or downwards in fits of the mother, by applying it
to
BURDOCK,
A.KA .
mon burdock. The common
stxilk can
on
navel, and that is one
good
way
that
were
it
says
fresh
about
30
As for the
seems
to
be
plants become
be
ed-
Frequently
used
in
Japanese
cooking,
Available commercially: Dried in tea blends.
Substitute
for
the
root:
Celeriac
or
celer\'
root.
CULTIVATION
Burdock
is
a
Holly
It
one
of
starts
seeds
The
seeds
the soil has
moist
a
soil
so
when
is
the
end
following
West
following year when the
Belgium where
plants will have
says
Shimizu.
First-year
pieces in
lower
leaves
flowers
Romans grew
the
flowers simply because they were pretty, and the fact that they
bloomed almost continuously surely
cultivated calendulas
fevers.
Herbal-
shape. (This
method became
Thus calen-
a
vial
glasse;
and marygolde
then put
side
grasse of a fairy throne;
then all these
flowers,
Luke, be
loving
prevent
a
was
in
cooking.
with
spinach
and
often
were
with
cookbook.
John
Gerard,
described making oatmeal with
healing of wounds. By
past.
USES
It
again, but the
any
flower
garden.
have been recom-
induce sweating
as a
a
in calendula,
the whole plant have been tried. Actually,
a
particularly
meaningful.
powder, cornstarch, or talc.
to
I STOOD TIPTOE
UPON A LITTLE
far \ale
fasting, recently cleansed of
Our
Fathers
cheese, and
well
as
flavor
and
can
feature
of
size—
most
a
dry
Cosmetic:
According
to
Jeanne
Rose,
body.
CULTIVATION
temperature is at least 60 °F,
sow
the
care necessary.
Calendula is
and
household
medicinal
and
a
twelfth-centur>'
Ger-
man
medical
work.
It
mundane level,
known
as
an
relatively safe if taken as a
seed,
The
seeds
can
be
Culinary: Even- part of the plant is edible. Austrians use
the
seeds
season pork. Gou-
seeds. The rural people
black,
used less fre-
is eaten
to
green or
parsnip: it can
and sauces, cab-
cauliflower,
turnips,
the cui
is best
split
pea
soup,
and going to
a
pot
off
Substitute: Anise
or
freeze
well.
You
a
recurring
to
8
inches
produce the
The long taproot makes
promote
a
stronger,
but don't let the earth dry
out;
have
been
ingredient in cuny- powder. It's also \\idely
used
shrub,
USES
culinarv* herb and
rich in terpenes,
stimu-
lant,
flatulence
by.
Culinary:
a
seeds
inside
are
used
whole
or
ground
as needed. One medium-sized pod contains 10 to 12 seeds
that uhen ground will make
about
Vs
teaspoon.
sweet
potatoes,
balls,
with
cumin
their
open, the seeds lose much of
their
drawers.
They
will
for an especially
long
culti\ated mainly in
ange marmalade
turn from scarlet
ests above
5,000 ft.
from this member of
function
very
effectively,
means  sacred
the
use,
Word of
its effectiveness
settlers of the American West
began to
use cascara
was
by
and letting
it cool.
Cascara was
fluid
by
ceutical
U.S.
Pharmaco-
poeia.
USES
powders,
also
be
an effective laxa-
of
a
sugar derivatives
bark can cause
however,
States proved largely unsuc-
GROWING CONDITIONS
is quite variable
ica.
R.
frangula:
treme
hardiness,
rapid
growth,
should
not
0.6 to
cured cascara sagrada bark,
needed.
Culinary:
known for its culinary
industry'
to
flavor
liqueurs,
soft
drinks,
ice
be eaten cooked or raw, and
in some parts of California,
the
flowers
are
a
though
frequently in the wild
shaded
not only an important
one as
well. It's
who
accent plant
and, some
say, a
since seeds have been found in some 4,000-year-old tombs. The
ancient
Greeks
were
familiar
with
to use the
eighteenth centun,- did it
derived
from
for
home
remedies.
prescribed
can bring
on nausea
and vomiting,
creams
and
are
irritating
to
sensitive
pods
to
be
swallowed
by
a
rennial
some
cooler
regions.
that
can't
it
and rabbits
no
scientific
evidence
sive,
you
should
be
the plant, is
catnip
usually
did.
HISTORY
how
least
2,000
remained in
was
great terrors of
coughing, congested cold-sufferer of
1754,
instead
of
transplanting,
and
living. America's
commercial
It
even
Stowe.
Today
was
Oregon's Trout Lake Farms. The major buyers are in the
pet
less
than
stored
industry buyers
tion,
and
leaves.
dersides.
Fruit:
of the thrill.
carminative (digestive
nightcap. Varro Tyler, Ph.D.,
modern medical
dence that catnip
a
flowering
tops
Moore. In general,
use
remote.
To
make
catnip
tea,
recipes came
a
fumigant.
.seventeenth-centur\' herbalist
high from
smoking the
letters,
effects of the
a
controversy:  Any
for that
sharp
flavors.
Cooks
could
greens ( includ-
It
was
grown
commer-
out.
Other:
For
attitude. His recipe calls
beaten
egg
a day
gave
mid-nineteenth century, wrote
feline
pleasure, although the response to it seems to be a
genetic trait
that some
Philadelphia
Zoo brought in several fistfuls, and the director of animal health, Dr.
Keith
of the
He
of
the
'/(
deal
more
wholesome.
Miss
Bardswell
ous.
An oil extracted from the plant has been used as a lure in
trapping bobcats,
lynx, cougars,
invisible
at
the
edge
inches
about a
at
all.
Of
course,
the
However,
be
necessary.
A
to have estab-
seen
North
Clarkson.
Orphie
WhifFendorfer,
weighed
herb are
direct-seeded
plants
Harvesting
out
sprinkled just a bit too much of this exotic condi-
ment on
with
delicac}'
on
hoagies
and
steak
sandwiches,
either.
HISTORY
pepper
plant
was
Americas,
to
to
take
ence; there
1493,
when
Peter
herbs
and
spices,
the
discovery
Capsicum,
like
cayenne,
hot to
nodes.
Flowers:
low
the mid-
early
more
than
 Where previous botanists had
treated almost every pepper
two
cum-.
said to be the
more vitamin
C than
grow in
peppers every
pods. (Sweet green
inferior
to
the
hot
variety
your mouth
sauce on your huevos
the
digestive
Herbal,
bad humors.
The twentieth-century
said, followed
internal
disinfectant.
Herbalist
R.
C.
Wren
removed
by
one
pods in hot water,
freely when feverish.
tem
by
of capsules.
with intestinal
bowel diseases. Even
amounts can cause severe
to
af-
blistering.
To
make
a
pint
tooth,
It
will
at
first,
remedy,
will
or
in
diversion;
but
where
it
is
in
quantin;
it, for
the blood-vessels of the head,
as
cayenne
in
a
and
has
a
similar
appearance
in
its
dried,
ground
and
spices.
pes,
chili
blends.
Substitute: Hot chili powder.
too
you
even
seed. Get
or more after the last frost
—
3
be
har-
vested
include mentions of this
plants. chamomiles
them
is
blance
earned the chamomiles their collective name: chamomile in
Greek
height of 2 to
Aiitlxmis
is
a
perennial
that
mally carries
HISTORY
Egyptian times, chamomile
relieve headaches and
a
nerves
were
before
refrigeration,
immersing
help eliminate
the rancid
odor of
an
bile: solid, solitary
end
than C. nobile.
world's best-loved herbs.
medicinal wizardry
lies in
the
oil
antiinflammatories
for
vari-
ous
anti-infectives for numerous minor
be made
with chamomile
not
measure
up
reputation would
Herbal,
derived from its oil;
used
time, beneficial
pollen,
reactions. People who have known sensitivities to
ragweed,
chrysan-
addition
routines,
underfoot, but chamo-
miles don't seem
on
fill
the
is not always conducive
work.'
watered
should
oftentimes labeled
the
genus
Anthemis
[the
genus
chamomile
and
that
Linnaeus,
who
a
plant
you
scentless, hence the
a
\-ell(nv
a lawn
mower, the
baths.
Just
steep
a
large
amount
of
the
herb
in
water
for
Beverly
Hills
facials because it is penetrating. To achieve this effect,
pour boiling
water over
steam waft over your face.
Chamomile is still
hair.
Companion
nothing contributed
soil gives the heaviest crop blossoms
when planted in
is
divided
in
about 18 inches
estab-
drying when the
been tr^dng to identify in the
fish sauce,
will almost
fragrance are
seventeenth-century herbalist Nicholas Culpeper believed that cher-
vil,
as
warm
ability
to
lower
studies support this
Culinary:
It
tainly is an effective
seasoning in foods. Both
decorative
are
occasionally
herbes
be added at
the moment to
with
1
teaspoon
Dijon
mustard,
2
teaspoons
in cook-
flavor
freshly ground
black pepper,
marjoram, lemon.
to
\\hich can
kept in the refrigerator or freezer (see the entry Cook-
ing with Herbs)
potpourris.
Ornamental:
Chervil
flowers
seed
will
germinate
in
^oximately
is moist
an
inch
deep,
furrow with
cheese-
cloth and keep the cloth damp. When the seedlings reach 2 inches in
height,
thin
them
to
9
every rwo
weeks from
mid-July, or
give you
few
a
fall
crop
Some
Seeds kept over winter
They
will
germinate
drainage works
plants have been
Elizabeth I of England took chicory broth.
But chicory may be taking
its
revenge.
a
highway
to
look
at
Italian
forced leaves of special varieties of chicory.
HISTORY
tion in Egypt, irrigated
Egyptian name.
The oldest
chicory,
Charlemagne
a
tures in action. According
las
recommended
chicory
the abundance of
sleep at night.
Thus Culpeper and
flowers we
by
colonists.
Thomas
Jeffer-
for the table . . .
have.
South and Pacific Northwest;
just around the
in
Philadelphia, according
Chicory advanced
by
legislation.
Venetian-red,
Venetian-red
he
amount
company roasted chicor\'
pellets
pure food
bitter
substances
ably,
these
adding chicory'
which
by
herbal-
ists
diuretic, and
Include
whole
sautes.
frozen.
CULTIVATION
garden
with
deep,
Direct
seed
in
early
apart. Pamper the plants throughout
the
season
by
weather turns dry.
too
off the
unheated garage.
one
part
soil,
one
each root with
the
drainage
hole
is
blocked.
In
fall
greens.
minced
fresh
are so
petals to
Leaves:
green,
ver)'
it is
a
place
chives, unlike their relative,
a
home,
at
much use for
for
tic and helps
large
quantities.
them in
tarragon. Chives
also complement
creamy
sauces,
cheese,
88
Storage
note:
sum-
as a border for the flower, herb, or
vegetable garden.
Craft: Both
as a
They
on
cucurbits.
CULTIVATION
 feu
can
start
very
temperature of
mix. In two
green
sprouts
appear-
most gardeners are eager
5
location.
If
you
the spring.
freeze.
The
several
blades
about 2
used
to
paying dearly for it. Cinnamon was one of the spices that spurred
world
exploration.
USES
a
cluding
gillus
parasiticus
carcinogen and
possible
medicinal
uses
Cinnamon's flavor is pungent and slightly sweet. The
part of the plant used is the inner bark. As it dries, it curls into
sticks
vital
to
East
Scandina-
vian,
Mexican,
blueberries,
and
fennel,
Available commercially: Whole
the cinnamon on the
freshener,
some
delightful and
welcoming. Weave
trees. Propagation
eye.
Ouch
vision
again. It
put a seed into your eye in order to remove
debris _^ow your
eye
name,
in
with
and made the wine more potent. Clary was also
substituted for
flavoring
alcoholic
bever-
ages
for
it.
Medicinal:
Some
herbalists
eye.
A
seeds in
to
the
mucilage
eye
so
making a cup from a mixture
of clary leaves and
used
in
or the flowers.
sam. Try
and jasmine.
vated commercially for its
fimies, and
9
They
will
probably
need
to
be
fall
ground around
clary with
and
massaging
odor
with it
A home-style, temporarytoothache anesthetic
germicidal properties. Some
an ingredient
may irritate the skin or
cause
oil
cloves would
split
pea
soup,
prunes,
cranberries,
pickling
brines,
strong
Aromatic:
ing
ted
flowers. Coffees are
teristic rich brown color)
West
Indies.
94
Coffea
teas,
drinkers
that
the best
hundreds of years
uniquely refreshing proper-
ties of the
what
elevations between
remarkable stimulant
ripe berries
(called cherries),
and shaped
delicacies were consumed before tribal warfare. Coffee as a drink
emerged later, not in the steaming hot form that
we
savor,
but
become
ac-
huge trade in silks, spices, perfumes, and
dyes
a
in
France
as
well.
Until
late
in
the
seventeenth
West
Indies,
Java,
India,
and
Brazil—
was ushered in.
 
as
well
as
the Middle East. In London and Paris, coifee was the drink
of choice among intellectuals and scholars, artists and
politicians,
firmly entrenched in the
over
market has continued
number
many
roasting
before
coffee
became
Medicinal:
other ills:
caffeine.
While
caffeine
may
not
ences. Researchers compared
the effect of
ing asthmatics
trouble brewing
and didn't
have his
treat-
of
treatment
that
are
obtaining caffeine to
nervous-
ness
Varro
an
as-yet
coffee safety
dovetailed 'with
its enormous
as
the table
three, I
rate coffee
CULTIVATION
of
this
country'.
and fall off.
to
Roman herbalist Pliny was
leaves.
plant
best
they
regarded
as
its
vevf
effective
medicinal
virtues
name and
really
a
safe
healer.
HISTORY
For more than 2,000 years, coltsfoot has been regarded as one of
the
best
herbal
remedies
you can see
its early reputation).
Coltsfoot has
remedies
and
leaves was
also
used to treat certain delicate ailments:  The burning heat of piles
or privy parts are
peper. The
also put this
with
in
severe
cases
around
the
thick,
felt\'
in
rags,
used
by
Scot-
land
Growth begins early in
rets; opens
FLOWERING
Early
spring.
RANGE
Native
to
bec to
out
of
trouble
spot.
treat similar
available in Europe, as are liquid extracts of the herb.
A seemingly
lage
smoke coltsfoot
conducted
by
Japanese
concentrations
of
showing
a
high
could
be
similarly
the
leaves
nor
the
culinary uses. Histori-
cally, it was
cooked
no
modern
uses.
CULTIVATION
overrun
thrives
acclaimed
seen
feed the world's hungry.
a
lotig
time
since around 400 B.c The Greeks used it to stop
heavy
bleed-
Dioscorides,
a
is derived from
plant
is
Greek
and
means
were
so
stick}'
that
when
It
isn't
so
wounds and
soups
and
by
comfrey,
use
of
use,
after
prompted
even
use of
study
and
down
in
the
side and
tinent.
HABITAT
Rich
well.
plaster and gauze,
The
have found
allantoin in the milk of nursing mothers and in the fetal allantois,
a
and burns
applied. Currently, phar-
In addition to comfrey's tissue regenerative abilities, it seems to
be
effective
infections on both farm animals and humans has quickened the
healing process.
as
eczema
Used
healing herb. Fresh
dried rhizome, grind it and
dissolve it in
break down the allantoin.
in
the
daily diet of many a vegetarian. It was used as a
salad green and
carcinogen wasn't sufficient
ver^'
eating 4 pounds a day of anything is
not
smart.
Ornamental:
won't harm
easy,
fast-growing
plant
to
raise,
comfrey
is
well-
suited
main
drawback
is
that
most
varieties
handsome leaves and stunning
The mucilage
soothes and softens, while the allantoin promotes the growth of new
cells.
To keep skin youthful and beautiful, add comfrey to lotions and
creams or soak in
herbal
tion on
comfrey by seed,
at
lished itself.
the fastest-growing
lished. The
in
mented that he
15
to
ending
on
other plants,
s can
but
routinely
does
a
and
thrive
These issues are
care must
freed from
and
plants are
So
far,
Most researchers
—
companion
exert this power and
is that there are
neighbor,
of their
by attracting beneficial
into
or
fruits
seem
to
a
particular
companion plant.
Often the claims seem based on culinary association: An herb that
enhances
a
\'egetable's
taste
reason, chervil makes
plant that
makes few nutrient or water demands on the soil undoubtedly would
be
a
to recommend planting mustard
as a
patch.
be that a
been
blacklisted
Scientists
are
source of food. Ideally,
lease
field
or
the plant combinations that
that
their
to
travel
through
the
soil or air, reach the target plant, and be absorbed, all
without
renders it
Still, there is some
convincing evidence of allelopathy
are French marigold {Tagetes patula) against beans, tansy
on col-
wormwood
usual
work, consider what's growing next door ft could be that
some neighboring herb or
HERBS THAT
REPEL PESTS
We know that many, perhaps even most, insects rely on
taste
and
smell
plant,
confused. They lay fewer
bean beetles;
however,
of specific
cases they reduce
and may eventually
nastur-
tiums
against
tansy against
potato
beetles.
Lots
of
work
remains
to
most herb
by the
on
cies.
growth
attack,
ground beetles and
list below
spearmint
Spiny
amaranth
their neighbors by repel-
plants. In
ability
to
traps stink-
Japanese
proven
by
researchers.
It's
Not all of the
are
their eggs on other insects
so
that
their
polli-
to
keep
plants.
Creeping
predators,
such
as
and most of the
pollen, too. Lacewings,
the
like.
Lacewings,
whose
larvae
trichogramma,
mi-
nuscule
Flies.
Hover
pollen provided
golds. Tachinid flies
at-
have nectar. Since most
these
As adults, paper wasps,
to
feed
their young.
The predatory and parasitic flies prey on all sorts of insects,
from tiny
leafhoppers and
a
sheltered
area
for
egg
laying.
double
carrot,
mustard,
mint,
which we
ous
flowers,
will
prettiest
chrysanthemums.
Surround
your
vegetable
and
tall-growing
over
a
blooming
and
Most of
poisons.
For
any insect in its path
and may at the same time transmit disease
to the
Far safer than these poisons are the
repellents that keep
to
others
hairs of tomato
that attract all sorts of cabbage pests can
sicken or even kill flies,
mosquitoes, spider
mites, and
Mexican bean
research in
effective
chemical
in
are there,
be
effective.
Success
depends
repellent present and
reduce
pest
problems.
of
both
seems
to
repel
is
effective
against
Colorado
less. When
pest problems
smell,
larval pests. The tiny
stay around
flowering plants.
Wasps also
seem to
the
a
sweetness of the tomatoes;
if the sauce
basics.
By
acquainting
yourself
to use
herbs, classic
flavor
personalities,
as the
sure
like
Spago
and
say
James
realized
herbal.
make it for
second billing.
aroma,
sharp
knife
or
Whole
fresh
herbs during the last 20 minutes or so of cooking.
Conversely, fresh herbs may
Tips
for
keepifigfresh
herbs
fresh:
be
placed
in
ator, where
condition
is
changing. Where once
our staples were bay leaves, dried oregano, and cinnamon, our culi-
nary' exploration
our
(1)
before
early in the morning just after the dew has dried.
Always
use
plants
serve
four
herbs
before
using
them
to
make
sure
they're
velop
by
five times more fresh
herbs than dried, depend
method:
screw bottom of the blender
container onto
down,
ing the .spices.
dryhig herbs: Herbs may, of course, be dried in commer-
cial dryers. But if
cookie sheets, set the
sheets in the oven, and leave the oven door ajar
to
They're
dr>'
when
the
Bouquets
like
an
progress
daily.
Microwaving
may reabsorb moisture
turned every
after
three minutes, reset
the timer for 20 seconds, and start the microwave again. Don't let
the
herbs
scorched.
when
the
leaves
pull
easily
in
the
refrigerator.
leave
aromatic.
scoop
the
herbs
into
and they'll
easy
Store
heat,
a
coffee
grinder,
and
Store them in jars or by hanging. as needed in
a
and onion pieces can also be dried using a com-
mercial dryer or your oven. Store the dried pieces
in
a
powder or onion powder
Using frozen herbs: Clever
herbal
provides
a
time, freezing will
from
the
freezer
and
toss
sauces.
If
you're using frozen herbs in salads or other uncooked foods, drain
them first. (Frozen minced
tarra-
off the soil with a
stiff
paintbrush
rather
brushed
several
containers
or
bags,
blanch.
usually
be
unblanched
for
in a
towels
and
freezing. Don't
needed.
COMBINATIONS
together
dill, lovage,
rice vinegar
them to
needed.
Ajiother
mince.
wine
vinegar,
depending on the herbs you're
adding. Heat the
a
2-inch
sprigs
be used, too, by adding one
for
cool,
be a
dieter's dream.
is more
flavorfiil. For
example, on
flavored oil,
flavorful,
nondieters
will
be
jealous.
Gently heat olive oil, peanut oil, or other vegetable oil until
it's
oil you're heating. Then pour the oil into a glass
jar
to
which
in a
jazz
up
Vi
cup
softened
118
biscuits or
toast, steamed
Use
When
to
spike
a
the classics
spices used
behind a
be
made
up
of
several
with
a tea
ball; or fresh or dried herbs tucked between two pieces of celery
and
string, make the string
cloves,
celers'
leaf,
For
nutmeg
to
cheesecloth
the freezer.
Fi)ies herbes
other recipes at the very last minute of cooking. The
allure of fines herbes is
in the
ing flavor they
haute
white
American pumpkin pie spice.
an aromatic
(cotiti7iued
•
with
pairings that are
common foods
wise
to
find
tard seed,
cay-
enne, and fennel seed. Curry powder is famous in East Indian cook-
ing
where, depending on the spice combination, it is called garam
masala. It
for Thai Muslim
curry) omit the
clude
are
commonly
com-
bined
with
a
be
always contains dried chilies plus
a
ano,
allspice,
pepper, turmeric, mustard
and
herb combinations, chili powder is best when ground as needed
and
heated
before
powder
a
used as a seasoning for pork and chicken and as
a
condiment.
Five
store five spice
powder, keep it
plus
a
tur-
meric,
use
dillweed,
 
that
salt-free
flavor
for
sprinkling.
For
beef:
ground
black
pepper
pepper
thyme,
and
lemon
juice
garlic
For
fish:
•
lemon peel
PEPPER
PARTICULARS
a
year,
according
Herb and spice
van,
a
oregano, and
•
lemon
—a
tomato
sauce
Experiment
with
•
fruit tarts
EDIBLE FLOWERS
pancake,
bedbugs
that
in various perfumes and cosmetics. This herb offers more than
a
few
surprises.
HISTORY
a
in ancient Egyptian
tombs. From Egypt, in all probability, the herb came into
use by
ritual of Passover.
medicines from it,
as a
spice and
as an
dynasty
make
a
person
immortal.
for they
believed that
it aroused
digestion.
Poultices
primar-
ily
as
a
flavoring
certiiin
medicines
produce.
Culinary:
As
a
Coriander leaves have
the
leaves
but
with
an
added
taste of citrus. Add
it is not
Asia,
onions,
sausage,
clams,
but whole is
separately.
Commercial
the food and beverage
fits,
does
to
«;2(:/
age. Mix them in potpourris to
give
gro^;^^;h of anise.
the job
bees
honey
CULTIVATION
Since
difficult
of
frost
has passed (April or May in most parts of the United
States).
sown
in
to
bet^'een
the
season.
Don't
overfertilize
coriander.
had
odor of the
out
for
funher
dn.'ing.
dried has
leaves
and a
Marinate
for
30
minutes,
poultry- or lamb,
stem;
yellow.
Leaves:
of
lemonade.
mother's Bible
Latin costiim, meaning
duced
into
popu-
and heal old
mended
of
did not serve
they
boring clergy
a bookmark.
benefit by
spirits, and
Medicinal:
medicinally
more
often.
However,
should
you want to try costmary for any of its historic recommenda-
tions
or
in
young leaves
costmary
a good
addition to
potpourris and
sachets. Use
gardens these
it is still cultivated in herb
gardens
America. Lovely
a sunny spot.
It
does
well
in the shade also but will not produce flowers. A tall
plant,
you
can
use
serves
water.
herb
produces little or
and
space
them
2
easily once you've started
them and will probably
one plant, as few leaves are produced up the stem
—most
grow
plant. Collect
at
a
a
and fragrances. There's
of
craftwork.
The
itself
soothes
and refreshes. There are no acid baths, no deafening machinery with
finger-eating
fragrant, and the herb
may
absolutely personal, local,
mass-produced world.
Armstrong, an
young plants and is ready to start her other herb
plantings;
she
happens
to
her house.
a
a
good
cook:
1
sides
work;
then
about the wreath,
by poking through
a bright cas-
but
indirect
sunlight.
she
soaks
odd
direc-
wire
you
should
have
a
bottle. Fortunately they're easier to make. They can hang near
win-
dows
or on Christmas trees, and they
make
in
them. Soak the balls overnight
in a
Then, wearing rubber gloves, swirl each ball in the solu-
tion, letting
the bleach
PLANTS
a
of
the
color
of
a
pencil.
potting mixture
(half sphagnum
perlite, for example). You'll need about 1 teaspoon of charcoal
and
pour
should till a quarter to a third of the ball.
3.
Push
them with
loose carpet
over the
4. Take
cluding some berries (the
poke the
tie
a
light and
begins to
the moss.
making them
'What is special about
the telephone)
and meaningful—and fragrant
neighbors,
entered
support in
here is
She
wrote
to
look
American
guessed
exactly
bouquet.
she just picks
senti-
ments
would
be
has
made
tussie-
mussies
with
as
few
whom
like writing
become irrelevant.
for
that
will
a
ring
of
metrically
ways
to
accent
the
leaves,
will
alternate
a
triangular
leaf
with
a
round
':}
and
perfect. Lane
tain
cotton
in
the square
eventually
going
into
water,
little
wax
points of the X-cut in paraffin
before
A
it longer, snip off the base
of the plastic
water. If
dry
well,
set
dry
several meanings. And never give
anyone unlabeled basil, which can
mean either
unusual craft
baskets is
textured
baskets
with
a
heather\'
but break off any
previous
row
so
they
the
beginning again, start the third row,
passing the herbs under
you'll
just
shrink.
As
you
weave
by
weaving
two.
to
use
bunches can't
bend sharply
don't
basket's
the bottom of the
up
the
frame,
rim.
so
In drying flowers we play
a
cover
the
laugh is on us. At first a dried arrangement seems like such
a
have tufts of silvery, fuzzy
leaves, tiny
trick: The principal way of drying
herbs and
Air-drying—
herbs
and
flow-
ers
bunches,
other to
liamsburg's flower
arranging, but
air-drying produces
drying—described later
drying technique,
common
mistake
that
large petals
that shed
2. Pick flowers
each
is neces-
and then
hooks the
move-
place
goldenrod
let
top
leaves
remain)
strawflower
flowers are dry, pack them in
boxes. Libbey
clearly.
Drying powders—for finicky flowers: If hanging flowers in the
attic
just
produces
a
try one of the
an
flower. Borax,
to
this
to
Whatever
of
Pick flowers for powder drying when they're not quite fully
open.
piece of
forms
a
wire
 stem.
nubbin
so
(The
flowers
will
wire
is
a
vase.)
2.
layer of
dPi'ing powder,
with
the
wires
Gently
pour
powder
is
silica
apart. Flowers with
Here
are
two
you can
King artemisia,
whole
wreath
marigolds);
and
some
ample
use
course,
but
artemisia.
and there. You
you
can
add
this
wreath:
1.
Cut
a
a
hook
covered
the
wire.
The
close to each other.
out of
ears, or
at
a
poolside
part>'.
140
other places and other
officinale
taraxacum
comes
endive. The more common
from the Greek taraxos, meaning
disorder, and akos, meaning remedy.
The
who knew the daig
diuretic effect), considered dandelion as a
valuable
of common names that reveal
something
of
have all survived
game played
then
count
matures into a distin-
out.
a
dried root is
but
herb.
by
is
a
reputation
as
an
excellent
grow
in
achenes;
narrow
seeds
with
flavor,
add
ginger,
3'/2
Dandelion
coffee
that
Young, tender dandelion
sauteed like spinach. The bright yellow
flowers can be
added to butters and spreads for color. The flowers are
also
externally
as
yellow
dyes
produce greens with
a milder flavor
or fragrance, or simply
is
not
without
its
side of herbs, generally in
the form of some malady
caused
by
an
herb. It may be
a rash or a bout of nausea. In the extreme, the herb
causes
a
brush
—
gerous.
A
don't
give
any
herb
and their
uses are
a
bring an unpleasant
all hospi-
picked was
heart
drug
is
 neither
an
species can display
may
be
dye
tives, rather
than drugs.
foods,
states
Ara
of chamomile is the
when
workers
use
machines that cut the whole plant. So the chamomile you buy
might contain
at
work.
adverse reactions
to a
regimen of
consisted of ground kola nuts {Cola
acuminata).
in
stringent
labeling
requirements.
The
American
Society
Administration
(FDA)
to
number
that
could
problem; questions
would
a
herbals
edly) The Honest
of
the
valley
[Convallaria
majalis
L.)
a long period.' Yet all
modern
authorities
 and
convallatoxin,
safety.
I
144
we'll
cure
1
You
wrong
with
you.
may be
inappropriate for
your ailment,
more
tion.
5.
Your
high blood pressure.
misla-
variable
sor\' Committee on
up the concerns about self-medication:  First, most of us aren't
trained
to
you
conventional daigs
can help
that some
just
from
species
member that their active
grown,
the
the
self-medicator
may
innocently
underdose
prompts people to
experiment
with
es-
decided to try out
another,
dangerous.
The
of
danger-
ranking in
dicinal
varies
greatly,
he
says,
and
it
present
a
danger
herbs,
often
called the GRAS list, for Generally Recognized As Safe. The
phrase
 for
since
 It must be realized, the FDA report points out, that
no
matter
abuse
problems, which in
in
moderation.
safety of individual
Department
Even
after
the
laboratory
was
closed
down
in
1981,
called
champions
to protect
Often
is
the most
safe (or
not
were
1983
new information.
a
table
a
A zero
Tyler gave the
herb minuses in
Tyler listed
Tyler gave
it Rose
ters call the
poisonous
dangerous
in
large
doses
or
Duke converted
comments
drawn
derneath, conspicuous \'eins.
why nightshade w'as
women
juices in their eyes
tells
that
deadly nightshade changed from
on but
is
not
surprising
when
one
.said
helped
them
herbs,
in
a
way.
toxiciu- did
added
to
over-the-counter
given
to
was ceased.
toxic,
During World
nerve
gas
developed
by
the
Germans.
Fortunately,
it
uses of drug
with their beautiful
eyes. Atropine also
passages,
and
it
serves
as
Extracts of deadly nightshade are used to treat Parkinson's dis-
ease,
psychiatric
hayfever.
when
weakness,
delirium,
signs
of
poisoning
as
in your garden.
As Elizabethan herbalist
gardens
and
the
a
(See photos on pages
ward from either
and therefore
wreaths
of
the
yellow
flowers
hung
in
and
as
a
Dill
was
believed
to
work
as
a
mother's milk, and
been
colic. To prepare
an infusion, steep
adding
panicuiarly
popular
in
the
salads,
soups,
sauces,
spreads,
and
fish
recipes
of
Rtissia
and
Scandinavia.
Available
commercially:
Fresh
and
dried
leaf,
but
the
and add
a light,
or
used
as
a
backdrop
sure
chances
upright.
always successful.
Plant early
gone, in rows 2
or thin
the young
you
grow
you
supply
of
dillweed.
If you're growing dill for the seeds, keep in mind that
seeds
may
second year. If dill
evening. Dillweed
to
freeze
the
freshly
be a
light brown
color. Those
as
flower
be
do
ily in
more effective when accompanied by
the words  Nettle in, dock; dock in, nettle out; dock rub
nettle
out. )
an
used throughout
a
laxative.
1 teaspoonful of
used
externally
to
combat
ringu'orm
However,
they
in
CULTIVATION
Dock
grows
as
is
difficult
to
eradicate
contained
area.
Plant
soil.
In
spring,
sow
seed
grances,
medicines
of many herbs
be a
the
will
you
difficult to achieve even
3.
washing
water can
affect the clarity of the dye. Rainwater is ideal if
you
can
than
using
your
cooking
use
are
poisonous.
dye
that
tartar is
glass
is
best.
10.
Thermometer
13.
Rubber
gloves
Tying:
prevent
around the skein in
enough
to
together and then tie them loosely around the skein, you
will
easily
the skeins
repel the
dye. Use
be
warm
(about
95
°F)
several
minutes.
After
rins-
Mordanting
wool:
them
from
fading
diluted
mordants
you
will
before
placing
it
in
to
and simmer
the water
or
let
it
soak
a
towel
to
If
you
will
be
storing
colors, enhancing yellows
same as
with alum,
be
kept
out
of
possibilit)' that light
use
V2
of tartar, and
4 gallons of
it. Stir it
the
pot
with
for
MxoVA
hours,
ofthe wool. Every
a stirring rod.
simmering period, let
cool
water,
a
towel
to
remove
moisture.
best
to
rinse
Follow the
Dissolve
soapy
bath while
of tartar solution.
-lO minutes,
skeins
Other opticus: A few herbs,
such as tea,
a
tannin).
want
to
vary
dye
vinegar to acidif\'
A shortcut in
can be done
you
will
only
get
different
but
you
will
usually
ripe.
Roots
are
best
harvested
in
the
they
contain
varies
depending
on
environmental
conditions
will know exactly how
pound of yarn.
With nut hulls,
have a little
AVi gallons of
leaves, stems, or
the
flowers;
them for the
On the
in another 2 gallons
a little
leaves: Because these plant parts are
delicate and easily damaged, they don't need any soaking at all.
Place
then
simmer
for
30
up
its
color
Strain
dry, soak it
simmer. Move
a glass or
Remember,
the
color
of
the
yam
will
get
lighter
as
process, lift
out the
WOOL-HANDLING
TIPS
Handle
1. Never agitate wool.
—
close.
During
the
water Also,
the
mordant,
dye,
wool
Squeeze
quantities,
'4
same
temperature
out
the
water,
ture. Hang the skein in
a
herbs if you create the dye bath and dye the
yarn at
yarn. This procedure is
fully
colored
yarns,
you
ought
to
possible:
what
you've
you
won't
ever
get
exactly
over what
sets.
Or
a
month
uncover
all
the
yarn
on
lower leaves ovate,
try's
most
the echinacea
used
the
juice
of
fication purposes.
According to
Growing and
in
order
prepared
anti-infective
pathic doctor Michael
founder of the Platonic Academy of Herbal Studies, describes
echinacea
as
immunostimulants.
Ornamental: If you're not interested in walking on hot coals or
otherwise healing yourself
They
have
a
gardens. They work well in peren-
nial and cut-flower
grow in
with
be kept in
check through mulching
do
winters
trolling pests
be
cleaned
and
dried.
plant
—as
well
as
harm to
the baby.
from a unique
come from
elderberr\'
has
to
a healthful
plant that
sowing.
Shakespeare
characters
called
of
Poisonous
with
elderbe
considered
to
have
no
sweet
and
the European elder were listed in the U.S. Pharmacopoeiairom 1831
to 1905. Dr.
a cup
for the
 They
are
generally
too
vigorous
they
the
soften the skin and
berries.
Herbs for specific information.)
False pretense: Although hardly
several
hundred
added
cheap port
to make it look and taste more expensive. In Portugal, the
practice
were
sailor remarked
as
just
medicine
pleasant
one.
However,
gardeners
have
species.
One
to propagate an elderbern^
will also grow
an area ofthe
bloom.
They
can
taking it
leaves can
be used
Scotia
to
rets surround center of disk flo-
rets.
Leaves:
stem leaves
pointed, oblong-
indigestion.  Let no day pass
without
promotes minh, as
the origin of this herb's name. Its
classical Latin name iiiida is
a
to
Troy,
her
island
Helena,
of Rome
is
 good
A
ing the
remedy for
such problems
were mashed well, combined with
a
gallon
a
half-gallon
con-
a
two hours.
In China,
as
and
candy
and asthma.
regulate menstrual
as a diuretic and
a
stage.
CULTIVAriON
Elecampane
is
easily
moist and
well drained,
second
growing
cies.
Their
Flowers:
branches.
Fruit:
over
5,000
years.
China remains the
settlers,
who
both
USES
The
most
a
pleasant
piney
tea.
In
been called Mormon
for the
coffee and
cure for
brothels
in
the
1800s.
Medicinal:
in
1
pint
of
boiling
water
for
heater
or
lay
admired
as
providing
vegetation on
varied. The aborigines and early
settlers of Australia
the trees, made
values of
the liquid
Ironically,
many
the
name
was ver\' effective
among
rubbing
for
tow-
creamy
clustered; no
part
poned by the bud
nate, stalked, swordlike. thick,
dark, lustrous green; -i-12
Lnited States in Califomia and
other southwestern
make
excellent
yard
prefer
a
too
close
access to
problem
since
natural
aromatic
oils
of
eucalypts
tend
to
repel
insects.
In
the
greenhou.se,
Greek
origin,
is
an
eye
medication,
eye-
in Queen
In Paradise Lost, the
eye
infliction
may
The dried herb was once smoked to relieve chronic bronchial
colds.
CULTIVATION
As
self-sufficient plant. But below the ground,
tiny root
absorb nourishment. There
is no permanent
Eyebright
is
high, with the
have
an
unusual
perennial
Foeniculum
F.
officinale,
is
commonly
known
as
but has quite
sweet
fennel's
celerylike
stem
mingles particularly well with vegetable dips, cream sauces, and
grilled fish. When
marathron,
from
maraino,
too
fennel
through
long
meat
the
mended fennel to increase the flow of milk in
nursing
mothers.
nine
causes
prevented nausea
and gout,
with
the
seeds
the
swelling in
the breasts
of nursing
The leaves, tender stems, and
seeds
variet}';
from Florence fennel.
seeds,
popular
for
use
The leaves and
marinades.
be
used
at
avocado
and
grapefaiit.
GROWING
CONDITIONS
care not to
for fennel's
herbs;
coriander
Harvesting
herbs, the
and
give
them
several
more
stems
are
at
have
to
watch
breeze. With
not only as
fodder
crop.
means  Greek hay,
and it is
sometimes used to
Fenugreek
Benedictine monks
USES
many
there
around
the
Research suggests that at least some of these
old-time remedies
have merit.
responsi-
laxative
make fenugreek tea, steep
also soothe
extract
to
improve
whole
or
Indian, Pakistani, and African cuisines, and are used
in
chutney
and
halvah.
Harvest
the
pods
vaguely resemble
singly or in pairs at the leaf
axils.
Leaves:
the Mediterranean; naturalized
in North America.
florets;
10-20
lowish
few comes
from the
an
and in
as
a
tonic,
while
an
repellent.
The
Mather recom-
melancholia,
short-
windedness,
vertigo,
arthritis,
kidney
stones,
been
recommended
British
medical
journal,
that
te-
ported
yet
another
leaves
each
migraine
sufferers
mix
the
mer and
cluster
of
in wool
an
cultivation. Ordi-
will meet its needs, and
a
Divide feverfew
To start feverfew from seed,
sow
it
in
February'
June,
sown
throughout the growing season.
The leaves may also
from the
his-
earliest Europeans for whom remains exist. The Egyptians held flax
in high
their tombs with carvings
The
source
of
clothing
carflyd,
rodded
and
For
of homemade
plant
contain
cyanogenetic
niurates
and
glucosides,
panicularly
linamarin.
Overdose
symptoms
include
in-
creased
used
as
a
remedy
Herb
bread.
Ornamental:
linen
today.
The
flax
plants,
plants are
pieces.
we now
use car
wax—a
the
sometimes used in
bird
feed.
people
literally
have
and had
ago,
seeds
a
homemade
was
then
applied
to
the hair before st^'ling. Once the stuff dried, it was
combed
seedlings to
will
.sprout
best
the
plants
Allow
fertilizer.
Pests
and
diseases:
Grasshoppers
are
damaged
by
dampness.
her
to
out
principle called digitalis that effected the woman's recover*'.
In
1785
a
very
important
medicinal
plant.
HISTORY
Dr.
Withering's
as a
the yellow
use of
heart
contrac-
it is
to
empty
In that fir.st
into almost any
first
forest
edges
while some
of the
tiny,
mix
them
with
sand
nursery
bed.
Cover
them
very
in order
to have
than
waiting
until
the
following
Germination
the
garden.
Allow
feet
apart.
or
spring.
Foxglove
tolerates
rosemary can set off a fence
or wall
you're tired
(Remember, though, that an herb
lawn won't hold
best to set
pungent fragrance
be limited to
shade trees. If part
of your yard is
add
swampy
site
with
the meadow,
and beebalm.
vegetable
cherry yarrow; gar-
of
fever-
few;
red,
particularly
border.
biennial herbs like nastur-
herbs,
strawberries,
rhubarb,
and
artichokes.
LANDSCAPING
If
you
ors, textures, and fragrances
all
gardens
involve
a
lot
easier
—to
paper
than
in
the
north. Make
comfortable
paths,
bring it
those
when choosing plants. First,
you're planning
you're planting
a knot
Surround
the
If you
seat
filled rectangular
the
can
be
brick,
walk. The two sides of the
garden should
fence the
rosemary,
or
southernwood.
with
vegetables
and
rigid framework of the design. Colonial herbs include burnet, com-
frey, dill, basil, clar>'
rue,
caraway,
creation is
detail, com-
the plants
are unified
by a
Five
den, with
garden;
and
a
 meaningful
The
National
retum
nated before
the year
grant roses
striking
gardens were
originally in-
for it
to keep
with
rich
plants
—a hard
clipping in
July
in sum-
winter protection,
would
supply of backup
plants. Nothing looks
basal rosette
2-foot cen-
or white
flowers in
stimulant, and as
white, pink,
sedative,
wrinkled leaves
treat dropsy. All parts are poisonous.
PLANTS
FOR
3
feet
tall
and
15
inches
wide,
with
hain-
leaves
and
sedative and hair
and
corms
tism. .\11 parts are
they
bright
a
to
4
flow-
ers
The 3-year-old roots,
Turkey
old quilts and oriental
rugs were created with
a mordant;
gold with
tity'
to
yield
dye,
saffron
dyes
have
always
been
the
dye plant
but is
make
a
soapy
lather
It is often
called poor man's
der, spear-shaped leaves, and
on 2-foot
gold
with
chrome.
the
is
ragweed).
domesticated varieties.
of
blue
dye
hav-
ters. The flowering tops yield
yellow
used
with
36
only
half
enjoyed all season. The
liage are highly
fragrant, with the
June
and
July.
The
cascade eff'ect.
plants must
of frost has
mix them.
maple-
like
width in
wantonly self-sowing. Scalloped green
12
to
15
summer. Fuzz>'
foliage smells
flowering
cascade
of
Can reach
stems will
weeks.
Flowers
with
June
and
July
with
deep
to loose
centers. The
flowers are
used in
foliage
is
used
of golden yellow flowers in summer Plant on
1
nial, 1 foot tall, with aromatic, gray foliage
and
on
1
'/2-foot
centers.
folium
ters of
blue-green, ferny
foliage and
yellow flowers
brown
stage,
clusters of cream-yellow flowers
arrangements.
211
garden is
the bor-
purple,
quent years to fill the borders, or
keep
plants with
dark green,
moss-curled leaves.
tall
small,
Con-
fine
the
roots.
and
Plants
nary'
Order of
magical powers against
seus used it to keep
the
sorceress
clove
of
garlic
it before their
it was the herb
ahead of him
want
to
draw
close).
used
it
to
Calendar of the
Egyptian
medical
a
60
ailments.
English
seventeenth-centurs'
British
herbalist
Culpeper
was
It is the
DESCRIPTION
4
to
15
they
domestic varieties
were said
medicinal benefits have
your kitchen.
Or, if
a
bag.
Infection:
in
the
garlic
when
the
cloves
are
crushed
and
to a piece of gauze that has been placed over
the
infection.
Worms
parasites:
other parasites in
old-time
concentrations
healthful aspects of
to relieve congestion.
toothaches,
it
important in
most of
the world's
marinades,
salad
dressings,
stews,
sauce,
Caesar
interplant
with
cabbages,
eggplants,
tomatoes,
pea
aphids
at
bay
for
gladiolus
days, com-
long,
6
substance
bitter
appetizers
and
aperitifs.
Gentian
strong that it
of the
boiling water.
Take 1 tablespoonful or less.
Add
ued for
plantings,
beauty, and only
their finicky culture
grows from
Manitoba south
are
crown
direct
sunshine.
acid
late summer
the
underside,
short leafstalks; leaves at
seed.
Height:
Layering
techniques
the
plants.
After
cultivating
5
USES
Medicinal:
ginger is effec-
against motion sickness. It is a safe and effective herb.
Ginger
is
a
mild
cold
winter
steep
for
5
to
20
minutes.
Drink
day.
Culinary:
fresh or dried in the recipes
of
China,
Japan,
Southeast
Add
garlic. Ground ginger
wrapped first in
will last
roots. Cut off
DESCRIPTION
aromatic, tufjerous rhizome that
whitish
or
buff-colored,
de-
or
poultry.
GROWING
CONDITIONS
lobed le;ifleLs radiating from
opposite sides
Far
offspring
If
her
husband
would
permitted
to
take
in
the
Shen-nung
pen-ts'ao-chi)ig
human
plant's appearance
Doctrine
of
in numerous
same system, which they
mention
its
reputation
wanted
to
was punishable
by death.
im-
story, but soon afterward the picture changed abruptly. In 1704,
an
first
near Montreal.
discov-
ered
a
a
$5
a
of the
plant's powers.
halved
its
make
men
too
blesome
and
impertinent
to
one
roll in.
$85 a
pound—that's
about $10,000
so
growers
with
black
nylon
several
years,
time
to
harvesting
from this country comes
the
current
USES
Medicinal:
think that
papers
hun-
compounds
have
be
useful
remains
unclear.
According
it's very
tea
them.
is an
Throughout the southern high-
earn extra money
the
work.
must know the plant and its
habitat.
They
quired
up,
weekend's
ural food
Other
studies
exist
a cup
as
expected.
the
evidence
as
showing
the Hke
as
70 conditions that
Some tests have looked at the root's ancient reputation
as an
have promoted the formation
of sperm in rabbits,
egg-
behavior in
Not
the
tests
were old-fashioned,
is little
agreement on
the
com-
plications
at
seeds
in
their tough outer
two
years
old.
good
drainage.
growers
build
lath
structures
to
soil pH of about 5.0 to 6.5. In the winter
they
need
on
substantial number
of rots
can attack
seeing
a
ginseng
root
that
another's treasured
point
equivalents
of
gray
virgaurea or
made
from
them
enrod as
roadside
These
horticul-
tural
heads
and
borders, an
flower arrangements.
create varying
used
Hyde
of
New
Jer-
sey's
for
that
sweet gold-
to
Holly Shimizu,
Garden in Washington,
D.C. In rich
she has
dig them,
Shimizu recommends
 
ered with
soft down.
an
insect
repellent.
The
Indians
were
always
goldenseal
Indians'
example
kingdom,
add-
ing,
' When
drove the price
minor influence on circulation and on muscle tone and
contraction:
smooth muscle areas.
uterine bl
with pharmacol
is
mildly antibiotic, especially against Staphylococcus
aureus;
Goldenseal
extracts
seem
to
stress
and
anxiety.
its
the mucous
a
long
cells. Other
and
a
burning
of
Ornamental:
233
in watercolors
is usually gathered from the
wild.
propagation
beds shaded with laths to get it going. Later, move it to a
permanent woodland location.
seed
to
harvestable
maturity,
grow.
Set
them
in
When
starting
goldenseal
may
Parsley,
sage,
to
flower heads. In some
poison oak
American Indians
urinary ailments.
called
grindelia.
to
the drug
'has been
used in
simply that of
irritation since the active
G. squarrosa is particularly useful for this purpose. Boil 1
ounce of plant
for 10 minutes. Cool, strain,
and
soak
a
CULTrVATION
much of
an ornamental,
it is
wild
can also
dency.
whole genus
covering, where rwo
they
fall
in almost all the
GROWING
CONDITIONS
a
well-
to
—
and effort. Ultimately, herb gardening is
just
gardening.
most herbs prefer,
balm,
chervil,
santolinas,
artemisias,
lavender,
rosemary,
winter
will
be
fed
without
being
well rotted)
will
rob
soil
they can form an impenetrable mat
unless they're
the
gar-
den, or started indoors in flats or pots. Borage and the umbelliferous
herbs—
they
will
grow,
planted successfully
before the plants are more than a
couple
To
sow
by
lining
bottom
of
each
with
in
a
inches apart in
individual
pots.
sowing
cover
the
in order
yarrow.
Just
press
them
lightly
against the medium; don't cover them. Mist the flats or pots
gently
to
65°
to
70
°F
time to start seedlings indoors