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Some of these plants have come down to us, not because they yield remedies that are any good, but because around them has grown such a vintage of garden folklore that scarcely any "old-fashioned garden" would be entitled to the name "container garden" without them. A few of these are included here, although they have no present medical use, nor are they particularly fragrant, as useful for cooking as wind chimes, and are of little or no use as culinary herbs, or attracting birds. Their inclusion is our last gesture to the past, for really useful herbs are as modern as science. Historically container herbs were grown only for three qualities; fragrance, medicine, or for what they added to cookery, including birds such as turkey, grouse, or quail. The fragrant-leaved herbs we still treasure, and nearly all the rest of the plants in this website are used in various recipes, but the medicinal herbs require a bit of sifting from the garden decorations hers. From the Greeks to the Middle Ages there was a vast literature on so-called medicinal plants, and these were not useful for garden decor, in most cases. Hundreds of different sorts were grown, but scarcely a handful are admitted to the U. S. Pharmacopoeia or the National Formulary, which are the official repositories of the really useful medicinal plants of today. However, in among the garden fountains, water features, wind chimes, container gardens, and bird feeders of the modern garden, many of these herb gardens remain.
Page 1: Why we need herbs
Page 2: Reasons for Growing Herbs
Page 3: Scoffing at Herb Gardeners
Page 4: Fragrant and Useful
Page 5: Herbs as Medicine
Page 6: Herbs and Commercial Drugs
Page 7: Grown anywhere
Page 8: Fragrance of Herbs
Page 9: The soil and flavors
Page 10: Most important Herb families
Page 11: Plant Families containing
Herbs
Page 12: Oils, Flavors, and Diet
Page 13: Learning from Herb History
Page 14: Cooking with Herbs
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